“Memories are worse than bullets.”
Variant: There are worse prisons than words.
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
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Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Kill the Dead
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) Romanian politician
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Jewish Problem
“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”
Idi Amin (1925–2003) third president of Uganda
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“Red tape has killed more people than bullets…”
Ben Bova (1932) American science fiction and science writer
Source: Millennium
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Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general
As quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874) by John William Jones, p. 171
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Jim Goad (1961) Author, publisher
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