Quotes by Richard Lourie

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Who are the Communists?""Russians who want to take away everything you have and work you like a slave.
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Then I heard it again. Like a baby crying. Maybe the police had come and arrested the Jews so fast that they hadn't taken the baby. Or maybe they just didn't take babies; what good were they in labor camp?
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... so then we had to find Jews to turn in so my father wouldn't die.
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You know who Anne Frank is?' I asked.'Of course,' he said, as if I had offended his intelligence and Dutch pride.'When they came to get her, they went right to her hiding place.''I know.''And that means someone betrayed her.''But who did it?' he said.'You.