Quote of the Day (Thomas Mann, on the Exclusivity of Stories)

“Not every story happens to everyone.”—German Nobel Prize-winning novelist, short-story writer, and essayist Thomas Mann (1875-1955), in his introduction to The Magic Mountain (1924)

Quote of the Day (Thomas Mann, on Why Speech is ‘Civilization Itself’)

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact — it is silence which isolates.”— German novelist and Nobel Literature laureate Thomas Mann (1875-1955), The Magic Mountain (1924)