But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
From Studs Terkel
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
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