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“He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.” (Schindler’s Ark Quotes)
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
“In this city he kept house with his German mistress and maintained a long affair with his Polish secretary.”
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
“It is a sweet thing to outstrip a father whom you haven’t forgiven.”
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
“It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which hung on Emilie’s wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved.”
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
“It was a great gift which the National Socialist Party had given to the men of the SS, that they could go into battle without physical risk, that they could achieve honor without the contingencies that plagued the whole business of being shot at.”
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
“Principle is principle, of course, and terror on a gray morning is another thing.”
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
“The more orthodox of the ghetto had a slogan – ‘An hour of life is still life’.”
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
“The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.”
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
“They permitted witnesses, such witnesses as the red toddler, because they believed the witnesses all would perish too.”
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
“Years later, one woman from those lines, remembering the morning, would face a German television crew and attempt to explain it. “He was our father, he was our mother, he was our only faith. He never let us down.”
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark
