In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.
From Michael Korda
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them.
The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.
Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
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