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American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and fil… 1940–1993Related quotes
“So much time and so little to say..”
"I'm Missing the War", Whatever and Ever Amen (1997).
Song lyrics, With Ben Folds Five
“Never before have so many people understood so little about so much.”
Connections (1979), 10 - Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
“Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!”
Source: His Majesty's Dragon
“Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.”
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 5, The World We Want, p. 209.
“So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!”
Comment on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, according to Charles Edward Stowe, Lyman Beecher Stowe, "How Mrs. Stowe wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'", McClure's magazine 36:621 http://books.google.com/books?id=biAAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA621&dq=%22little+woman+who+wrote+the+book+that+made+this+great+war%22 (April 1911), with a footnote stating: "Mr. Charles Edward Stowe, one of the authors of this article, accompanied his mother on this visit to Lincoln, and remembers the occasion distinctly."
Annie Fields, "Days with Mrs. Stowe", Atlantic Monthly 7:148 http://books.google.com/books?id=8F0CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA148&dq=%22Is+this+the+little+woman+who+made+the+great+war%22 (August 1896)
Posthumous attributions
Variant: Her daughter was told that when the President heard her name he seized her hand, saying, "Is this the little woman who made the great war?"
Variant: So you are the little woman who caused this great war!
