He Knew Everything About Literature Except How

What Is A Country? A Country Is A Piece Of Land Surrounded On All Sides By Boundaries, Usually Unnatural. Englishmen Are Dying For England, Americans Are Dying For America, Germans Are Dying For Germany, Russians Are Dying For Russia. There Are Now Fifty Or Sixty Countries Fighting In This War. Surely So Many Countries Can't All Be Worth Dying For.

You Have No Respect For Excessive Authority Or Obsolete Traditions. You're Dangerous And Depraved, And You Ought To Be Taken Outside And Shot!

Death To All Modifiers, He Declared One Day, And Out Of Every Letter That Passed Through His Hands Went Every Adverb And Every Adjective.

He Had Decided To Live Forever Or Die In The Attempt.

I Can't Start Writing Until I Have A Closing Line.