I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.

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• Anthony Mann:

  I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the sn

• Stanley Spencer:

  Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, an

• Stanley Spencer:

  Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.

• Franz Halder:

  The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

• Franz Halder:

  The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, wil

• Franz Halder:

  The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British

• Georges Duhamel:

  We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

• Georges Duhamel:

  Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

• Georges Duhamel:

  I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

• Georges Duhamel:

  There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.