“They couldn’t promise that, could they?”
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 11 (p. 112)
Context: “Of course not. Congress would have to declare war; this was back in the old-fashioned days when Presidents felt they had to honor their oath to abide by the Constitution.”
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Novelist, short story writer 1911–1995Related quotes
“I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.”
Half a Life (2001)
Source: My Double Life (1907), Ch. 25
Context: Victor Hugo could not promise without keeping his word. He was not like me: I promise everything with the firm intention of keeping my promises, and two hours after I have forgotten all about them. If any one reminds me of what I have promised, I tear my hair, and to make up for my forgetfulness I say anything, I buy presents — in fact, I complicate my life with useless worries. It has always been thus, and always will be so.
“I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not kill them.”
Source: Ravishing in Red
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The End of Economic Man (1939), p. 39
Source: The Longest Ride
