Famous quotes containing the words german and/or reed:
“She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“And pray for me also under the draughty stair.
As we get older we do not get any younger.
And pray for Kharma under the holy mountain.”
—Henry Reed (1914–1986)
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