Kapp Putsch Historian Quotes & Sayings

Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears? — Peter Ackroyd

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny? — Salman Rushdie

It smelled like Lysol and desperation. — Rachel Caine

I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there. — John Holmes

I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good. — Pat Paulsen

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most translations have caught meanings in their net, but prosily, letting the beauty slip through. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. We have that on good authority. — Ursula K. Le Guin

This is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. — John Piper

Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you. — Junot Diaz

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that. — Jen Kirkman