John Boyne
Novelist
1971-04-30
Quotes by John Boyne
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He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.
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What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?
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Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.
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He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.
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...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.
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Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.
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What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?
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He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.
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...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.
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He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.
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Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.
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People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
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I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.
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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
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