Death Quote by David McCullough

“He continues to believe, here on his French leave, and at his ease, that the interference is temporary and paper, a matter of messages…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Oxford was as drenched in Dixie as we were, just about as Southern a town as you would ever hope to find, which generally…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“Fred Ruskin barreled through the rain down Buchanan Street in his battered Pacer, the jar his dead wife had directed him to retrieve from…

— Joe DeRouen

“The years fell away from him till, in an instant, from being a rather poorly preserved, liverish greybeard of sixty-five or so, he became…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“After September 11, I wondered rhetorically midway through a column what we in the West are prepared to die for, and got a convoluted…

— Mark Steyn

“Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper…

— Donna Leon

“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me here so…

— Elaine Sciolino

“Rupert Clockenwall seemed to have been too bland a soul to come back from the grave on a haunt.”

— Dean Koontz

“Babcock knew no Southerners personally but he had seen them in court often enough...and Ed's manner and appearance said Dixie to him. He imagined…

— charles portis

“To the Frenchmen risking their lives to drive the English from Scotland, such a feud seemed no doubt an ill-timed indulgence. To Buccleuch, any…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked…

— Nenia Campbell

“Waving his arm over the carnage, the German remarked that the American attack that morning had been a “foolish affair.” He himself had known…

— Joseph E. Persico