Generalissimo's Quotes

#1. When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no spice could furnish.
("The Generalissimo's Butterfly")

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#2. To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

Walt Disney

#3. My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

Elaine Maxwell

#4. Generalissimo Stalin directed every move ... made every decision ... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived ...

Georgy Zhukov

#5. My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

Russell Hoban

#6. Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

Dag Hammarskjold

#7. It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they'll go find someone else's story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it's more interesting to get to know the person myself.

Ricky Williams

#8. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. But what are you? Buddhist? Japanese? Communist? What?' 'I'm nothing.' 'Can you be nothing?' I never knew how to answer that question when I was asked it as a child, because the wording troubled me. Can you be nothing? I will be nothing.

Jaume Cabre

#10. For ages they had been without lives of their own. The whole of their being was open to the world and nothing divided them from the rest of creation.

Thomas Ligotti

#11. You actions are your only true belongings.

Allan Lokos