“We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.”
Yasmina Khadra (1955) Algerian writer
Source: Swallows of Kabul
“We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.”
— John Scalzi, book Redshirts
Source: Redshirts
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Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
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“[Whoever did this] must be exterminated, and they must be exterminated by us.”
J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972) American law enforcement officer and first director of the FBI
On the perpetrators of the Kansas City Massacre of 1933, as quoted in Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough (2004: Penguin), p. 51.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Similar remarks are also attributed to Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx and to Mark Twain
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