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  1. Martha Gellhorn _ The View from the Ground

    In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts the control is now humane and lenient, judged by what it was and what it is in other satellite countries. Still you do hear the incompetent echo in the tapped hotel telephone, you do notice that people look over their shoulders when talking in restaurants - the secret police are dormant but not forgotten; you feel in your bones, as you would a threatening change in the weather, every change in Russian mood or action. This is not and air we have ever breathed; I doubt if we would be strong enough to resist such a climate and stay as healthy in spirit as the Poles.
    book-quoteoppressionpoland

  2. Robert Savosnick _ Jeg ville ikke dø

    Jeg trodde Auschwitz var helvete på jord og at ingenting kunne bli verre. Der tok jeg feil. Auschwitz var et organisert helvete. Krematoriene fungerte. Likene ble ikke liggende på appellplassen. Warszawa var et planløst helvete."
    book-quotehellpolandauschwitz

  3. James A. Michener _ Poland

    Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
    book-quotehistorywareurope

  4. James A. Michener _ Poland

    a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
    book-quotesoldierpolandchance

  5. William Styron _ Sophie's Choice

    Despoiled and exploited like the South, and like it, a poverty-ridden, agrarian, feudal society, Poland has shared with the Old South one bulwark against its immemorial humiliation, and that is pride. Pride and the recollection of vanished glories.
    book-quotenationalismpoland

  6. Sylvia Plath

    In the German tongue, in the Polish tow
    warpoland

  7. Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood

    It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.
    book-quotepoland
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