| Author Quoted | Henry Miller |
| Title Quoted | Remember to remember |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1961/10/15 |
| Imprint | Norfolk : New Directions. 1947 |
| Quotation | I have been reading Henry Miller's Remember to Remember [Norfolk, 1947] especially for the part about war, written twenty years ago. Some of it is very much like what I myself wrote at the same time. And it is exactly what one could write now. No peace now-Roosevelt was the headline in the evening paper. One night he will say No Peace Now-Kennedy. For Kennedy is not letting anyone get any illusions about the Berlin crisis "dying down." In Miller's words, of twenty years ago, "The vast majority of people know deep down that the day is drawing near"¦. They are dumb and silent, more or less reconciled to their lot because it seems inevitable." This time there is more confusion about it. Last time-Pearl Harbor made everything very simple. The Berlin issue is still, whether you like it or not, relatively technical. Most people are not easily convinced that it is worth a world war of the proportions war might now assume. |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 170 |
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