Guy De Maupassant Private Life Quotes & Sayings

Ideology must be our foundation as it was for the Bolsheviks, but the new archives show that the personalities and patronage of a minuscule oligarchy were the essence of politics under Lenin and Stalin, as they were under the Romanov emperors - and just as they are today under the 'managed democracy' of twenty-first-century Russia. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world. — F Scott Fitzgerald

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. — Nicholas D. Kristof

I'm tired of fighting. — Harry Houdini

War was waged to make peace. Abuse was love. Welcome to the funhouse, where strange mirrors reflect the faces of hell. — Dean Koontz

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life
if I live that long. — Edward Abbey