Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg; 27 January 1891 – 31 August 1967) was a Soviet writer, journalist, translator, and cultural figure...
NationalityUkrainian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth27 January 1891
CountryUkraine
break-through earth green
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
pride army race
Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward, kill, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army.
artist masters teach
Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
writing fate destiny
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be.
heart men approach
Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
mistake past people
People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.