Tradin War Stories

Famous quotes containing the words war and/or stories:

    “No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.... For me “style” is matter.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)