From a letter to the editor, where Childers questions the reasons behind the recent raid of his Dublin home. Irish Times , 19 April 1920.
Literary Years and War (1900-1918), Last Years: Ireland (1919-1922)
“Lt. Colonel Picquart had carried out his duty as an honest man.”
J'accuse! (1898)
Context: Lt. Colonel Picquart had carried out his duty as an honest man. He kept insisting to his superiors in the name of justice. He even begged them, telling them how impolitic it was to temporize in the face of the terrible storm that was brewing and that would break when the truth became known.
Letter to George Washington (August 1778)
“Lieutenant Onoda, Sir, reporting for orders.”
No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War, tr. Charles Sanford Terry (1999), ISBN 1557506639; after meeting his superior, Taniguchi, the first time in 30 years.
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
Variant: I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 6 “A Deserter in Time of War” (p. 162)
"The Ballad of the Children of the Czar" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ballad-of-the-children-of-the-czar/
Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959)
Source: The Face (2003), Chapter 13; describing the estate's elaborate phone system
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
