Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Context: Literature is dialogue; responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.
Writers can do something to combat these clichés of our separateness, our difference — for writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences — experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.
Su Tseng-chang (1947) Taiwanese politician
Su Tseng-chang (2013) cited in " DPP willing to normalize cross-strait relations: Su http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/china-taiwan-relations/2013/11/10/393321/DPP-willing.htm" on The China Post, 10 November 2013.
“Dialogue in Hell:
Tenth Dialogue”
Will Eisner (1917–2005) American cartoonist
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005)
Variant: Dialogue in Hell:
Fourth Dialogue
“Dialogue in Hell:
First Dialogue”
Will Eisner (1917–2005) American cartoonist
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005)
Variant: Dialogue in Hell:
Twentieth Dialogue
“Dialogue in Hell:
Seventeenth Dialogue”
Will Eisner (1917–2005) American cartoonist
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005)
“...a difficult dialogue is better than no dialogue.”
Massimo Introvigne (1955) Italian philosopher
"International Religious Freedom Summit’s Aftermath: Battle Over Ukraine" https://bitterwinter.org/international-religious-freedom-summits-aftermath-battle-over-ukraine/
“The Euthyphron is a very paradoxical dialogue. So indeed is every Platonic dialogue.”
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
An Untitled Lecture on Plato's Euthyphron (1996)
“I can memorize Shakespearian dialogue faster than modern dialogue.”
Art Evans (actor) (1942) American actor
Leo Boccardi (1953) Italian nuncio
Interview With Archbishop Leo Boccardi Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See (Vatican Ambassador) to the Islamic Republic of Iran https://en.shafaqna.com/63185/interview-with-archbishop-leo-boccardi-apostolic-nuncio-of-the-holy-see-vatican-ambassador-to-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-2/ (28 May 2018)
“Trust is established by dialogue.”
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
“There is no dialogue except with weapons.”
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) founder of al-Qaeda
Audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera (18 October 2003).
2000s, 2003
