#rote

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States. ↗

— Terry Southern

#attention #believe #came #first #got

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#clause #enacted #equal #equal protection #galleries

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected. ↗

— Albert Speer

#army #before #being #bring #catastrophe

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#construction #creates #economy #engineering #heavy

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#danger #hammer #i #mike #original

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#book #commercial #i #margaret #mitchell

There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force. ↗

— John Stossel

#against #corporate #corporations #could #force

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones. ↗

— George Strait

#became #great #i #i can #number

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#came #courage #facts #found #had

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#decided #even #know #minority #need