Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Introduction for R. A. Lafferty, Episodes of the Argo (1990), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
Cameron Letter (1878)
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Introduction for R. A. Lafferty, Episodes of the Argo (1990), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
“My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty…”
Franz Stangl (1908–1971) Austrian-born SS officer, commandant at first Sobibór extermination camp and then Treblinka extermination c…
Quoted in "The Bormann Brotherhood" - Page 182 - by William Stevenson - 1973.
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales
First reported in Arnold Gingrich, Coronet, Volume 17 (1944), which characterizes the quote as a diary entry. A much earlier report in "Life of the Rev. Matthew Henry", in Christian Biography (1799), p. 66, has Henry writing:
What reason have I to be thankful to God, that having travelled so much, yet I was never robbed before now. 2. What abundance of evil this love of money is the root of, that four men should venture their lives and souls for ubout half-a-crown a-piece. 3. See the power of Satan working in the children of disobedience. 4. The vanity of worldly wealth—how soon we may be stript of it, how loose we ought to sit to it.
Misquoted
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) French artist and painter
Quote in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 31
1920's, My life (1922)
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 69
Helen Reddy (1941) Australian actress
Broadcast of 15th Annual Grammy Awards, directed by Marty Pasetta for CBS, 3 March 1973
“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945) German admiral, head of military intelligence service
Quoted in "Admiral Canaris - Chief of Intelligence" - Page 210 - by Ian Colvin - 2007