“I killed you! And you didn’t even notice!”
Source: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 14, “Hospital” (p. 235)
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British science fiction writer and blogger 1964Related quotes
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Jack Finney book From Time to Time
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 20 (p. 212)
James Mattis (1950) 26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United States Marine Corps general
After the invasion of Iraq -and after sending his tanks and artillery home- Mattis sent this message to the Iraqi leaders in every area his men served in, as quoted in Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) by Thomas E. Ricks; as excerpted in Armed Forces Journal (August 2006) http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/fiasco/
“But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.”
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
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Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Attributed to Strauss at many sites on the internet, this is actually Norman Maclean, in A River Runs Through It (1976)
Misattributed
“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”
John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“You notice a very special person, when he can make even you the same.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Ti accorgi di una persona veramente speciale, quando riesce a rendere tale anche te.
Source: prevale.net