5 Quotes & Sayings By Philip Gourevitch

Philip Gourevitch is a New Yorker and a native of Paris. He is the author of "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction in 2001 and has been translated into several languages. He has written for the "New York Times Magazine," "The New Yorker," and "The New Republic," among other publications, and his work also appears regularly in "The New York Review of Books" and "Le Monde Diplomatique."

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
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Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. Philip Gourevitch
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This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real. Philip Gourevitch
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The West's post- Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. Philip Gourevitch
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I couldn't help thinking how well Cain had prospered after killing his brother: he founded the first city--and, although we don't like to talk about it all that much, we are all his children. Philip Gourevitch