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David Guterson, né le 4 mai 1956 à Seattle à Washington, est un écrivain américain. Également journaliste, il est l'auteur de nouvelles et de romans dont La neige tombait sur les cèdres pour lequel il a obtenu le PEN/Faulkner Award en 1995 et que le réalisateur australien Scott Hicks a adapté au cinéma en 1999. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. mai 1956
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“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”

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David Guterson livre Snow Falling on Cedars

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Ch. 32, last page.

“None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.”

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David Guterson livre Snow Falling on Cedars

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“I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.”

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“There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can…. Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.”

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“The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.”

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“That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty”

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David Guterson livre Snow Falling on Cedars

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“Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”

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David Guterson livre Snow Falling on Cedars

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“We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.”

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"When Schools Fail Children: An English Teacher Educates His Kids at Home", Harper's Magazine (November 1990)

“The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.”

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Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense (1992), Ch. 5: "School, Home, and History", p. 109

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