Imagining Argentina Quotes

“It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.”
― Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina

“They can see everything they want to, but never forget that they cannot see beyond the distortion of their imagination where there is no color and everything exists in black and white. And that is why we will survive, because they do not have what is necessary to defeat us. The real war is between our imagination and theirs, what we can see and what they are blinded to. Do not despair. None of them can see far enough, and so long as we do not let them violate our imagination we will survive.”
― Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina

“People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know.”
― Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina

“Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.”
― Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina

“When we first arrived at Auschwitz there were birds. I didn't know what kind, just brown birds, like the finches. They came for about a week and then the Nazis electrified the fences. I was out early the first morning they had the power on. A whole flight of these little birds came in and as they settled on the wire they made quick bright bursts of flame and smoke. The others did not know what was happening and they kept coming in and getting incinerated. The next day the birds did not come close to the camp. We saw them in the distance for a few days, but they never came close. At first I thought they had just naturally learned a lesson, but then I realized they had become sensitive to evil.”
― Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina