“She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.”
Charles Perrault (1628–1703) French author
Tales of Mother Goose, 1727, "Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper"
Northanger Abbey (1817)
Works, Northanger Abbey
“She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.”
Charles Perrault (1628–1703) French author
Tales of Mother Goose, 1727, "Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper"
Julius Streicher (1885–1946) German politician
To Leon Goldensohn, June 15, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Part One, Ch. 3
On the Road (1957)
John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 47, “Plea of Insanity” (p. 146)
“I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.”
Mario Vargas Llosa book The Bad Girl
Source: Travesuras de la niña mala
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
1980s
Source: EWD648.
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) Cuban poet/novelist/playwright
Source: On his preference for short stories over novels in “The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-literature-of-uprootedness-an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas in The New Yorker (2013 Dec 5)