
“I am not very clever about Americanisms — and I understand they change very quickly.”
A Murder is Announced (1950)
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“I am not very clever about Americanisms — and I understand they change very quickly.”
A Murder is Announced (1950)
During his book launch, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ex-toronto-lawyer-takes-on-kenyas-pm/article4446166/, 2012
2012
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.”
1960s, The Fields of David Smith,' (1999)
.NET Briefing Day Speech (24 July 2002) http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2002/07-24netstrategy.asp
2000s
translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Herman Kruyder:) Nu pas zie ik waartoe ik in staat ben en ik begrijp niet dat ik het doek in mijn kleine voorkamer [1928, in Blaricum] heb kunnen maken.
Kruyder, c. 1931; as quoted by Regnault in his Memories; as cited in Herman Kruyder 1881 – 1935: gedoemde scheppingen, ed. Mabel Hoogendonk; (ISBN 90-400-9905-7), Waanders, Zwolle 1997, p. 30
Kruyder's reaction after seeing his own painting 'Groot landschap uit Limburg' hanging in a large room of the house of his art-buyer P.A. Regnault
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