Eugen Weber quotes

“If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.”
-- Eugen Weber

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“If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.”
-- Eugen Weber

Source : "Varieties of Fascism: Doctrine of Revolution in the Twentieth Century" by Eugen Weber, Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand, (p. 47), 1964.

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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”

“Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.”

“It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.”

“Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'”

“George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.”

“The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."”

Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2

“Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me”