The Typewriter and the Guillotine Quotes

“Everything that is happening in Europe now is happening according to the characters, rather than the politics, of a few leading men. What is taking place here is psychology, not history. History will come later.”
― Mark Braude, The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

“People remain pilgrims; they love to love, they yearn to follow, to believe, to put trust in. It’s a human necessity which democracy, ironically, has deprived them of, in seeking to serve everyone.”
― Mark Braude, The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

“History looks queer when you’re standing close to it,” she wrote from Budapest,”
― Mark Braude, The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII