“I hold peace and war in my toga but I'l take a cherry flip
Today nobody knows whether he was tomorrow
They beat time with a coffin lid
If somebody had the nerve to rip the tail feathers
out of the trolley car it's a great age…”
End of the World, Ende der Welt', 1919
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Arthur Desmond (1859–1929) New Zealnd writer
Rival Caesars (1903)
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.”
Dashiell Hammett book The Maltese Falcon
Source: The Maltese Falcon
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Said in 1923 when he was criticized by several writers due to the light style of his nonetheless extremely popular plays.
Source: http://curistoria.blogspot.com/2009/05/pedro-munoz-seca-las-cosas-claras.html
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
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