"I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world."

-- Frank B. Kellogg

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“It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.”
“Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right.”
“I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.”

Source : David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr
“You have to figure out who am I? What do I want to do? What do I want to say?”
“Grandma Mazur stood two feet back from my mother. "I gotta get me a pair if those," she said, eyeballing my shorts. "I've still got pretty good legs, you know." She raised her skirt and looked down at her knees. "What do you think? You think I'd look good in them biker things?" Grandma Mazur had knees like doorknobs.”
“I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.”

Source : Kaye Gibbons (2012). “Ellen Foster”, p.11, Algonquin Books
“What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But I am not constantly pointing my finger and criticizing things that are a country's internal affairs.”
“People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.”

Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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