Black Kettle (1803–1868) Leader of the Southern Cheyenne
Source: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), p. 101
“Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife.”
Urging Carroll to shorten Through the Looking-Glass; p. 14
M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators (2003)
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Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
"Life of Sir James Mackintosh" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 50.
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 98
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Há sensações que são sonos, que ocupam como uma névoa toda a extensão do espírito, que não deixam pensar, que não deixam agir, que não deixam claramente ser.
Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017) American science fiction writer and journalist
How Jerry Pournelle got kicked off the ARPANET http://www.stormtiger.org/bob/humor/pournell/story.html from message published on BIX networks/arpanet #3, from jerryp, Tue Jul 9 18:22:01 1985. <br class="br">Assorted
“But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.”
Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
“Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please.”
Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) American painter and illustrator
Letter to Gertrude Whitney (8 April 1914)
Context: Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers today. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.
Bob Black (1951) American anarchist
I’ve Got A Nietzsche Trigger Finger! (1986)
Context: Please allow me to introduce myself …
I am Black the Knife, I am secretly famous, I have designer genes. I’m on a macropsychotic diet, I’m anarchorexic, I underwent paleolithium treatment, I’m the 6-Pac-Man! I not only know Who Wrote the Book of Love, I edited out the mushy parts!
