Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass
Source: Lords and Ladies
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass
“they thought I had guts
they were wrong
I was only frightened of
more important things”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Leopoldo Galtieri (1926–2003) Argentine military dictator
General Who Led Argentina In Falkland War Is Detained http://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/12/world/general-who-led-argentina-in-falkland-war-is-detained.html, The New York Times (April 12, 1983)
“Paul had always thought that women were never more serious than when they were naked.”
Françoise Sagan (1935–2004) French writer
Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
John Banville (1945) Irish writer
John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)
“I thought the Iraqis were Muslims.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Meeting with three Iraqi-Americans before the invasion of Iraq, regarding a potential conflict between followers of Shia and Sunni Islam. See Peter Galbraith (2006), The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End.
Attributed, Private/attributed
“Here I thought they were invincible.”
Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows
“They’re immortal. It’s not the same thing.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 49 (p. 451)