Talk:Ivan Illich

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Misattributed

• “You must never give up. As long as a person is alive, somewhere beneath the ashes is a little bit of remaining fire, and all our task is …[is to] blow carefully, very carefully, blow … You’ll see it if it lights up. You mustn’t worry whether it takes fire again or not. All you have to do is blow.” (e.g. [1])
  • This was actually said by Hélder Câmara. It was relayed by Ivan Illich in a series of interviews in 1989 with CBC's David Cayley, transcribed in Ivan Illich in Conversation, House of Anansi Press, 1992. RZiman (talk) 05:59, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
    • Older version of the transcript: "Part Moon, Part Travelling Salesman: Conversations with Ivan Illich" [2] [3] RZiman (talk) 15:10, 18 January 2024 (UTC)