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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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will be behind me.<br />

Letter to Munich critic Rudolph Louis, responding to a savage review in ‘Münchener Neueste Nachrichten’, 7<br />

February 1906; in Nicolas Slonimsky ‘Lexicon <strong>of</strong> Musical Invective’ (1953) p. 139<br />

6.23 Charles A. Reich 1928—<br />

<strong>The</strong> greening <strong>of</strong> America.<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> book (1970)<br />

6.24 Keith Reid and Gary Brooker<br />

Her face, at first it seemed just ghostly <strong>The</strong>n turned a whiter shade <strong>of</strong> pale.<br />

‘A Whiter Shade <strong>of</strong> Pale’ (1967 song); performed by Procul Harum<br />

6.25 Erich Maria Remarque 1898-1970<br />

All quiet on the western front.<br />

English title <strong>of</strong> his novel ‘Im Westen nichts Neues’ (1929).<br />

6.26 Jules Renard 1864-1910<br />

Les bourgeois, ce sont les autres.<br />

<strong>The</strong> bourgeois are other people.<br />

Journal, 28 January 1890<br />

6.27 Montague John Rendall 1862-1950<br />

Nation shall speak peace unto nation.<br />

Motto <strong>of</strong> the BBC, adapted from Micah ch. 4, v. 3 ‘Nation shall not lift up sword against nation’<br />

6.28 Jean Renoir 1894-1979<br />

Is it possible to succeed without any act <strong>of</strong> betrayal?<br />

‘My Life and My Films’ (1974) ‘Nana’<br />

6.29 Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919<br />

I paint with my prick.<br />

In Whitney Chadwick ‘Women, Art and Society’ (1990)<br />

C’ètaient des fous, mais ils avaient cette petite flamme qui ne s’èteint pas.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y were madmen; but they had in them that little flame which is not to be snuffed out.<br />

On the men <strong>of</strong> the French Commune, in Jean Renoir ‘Mon pére’ (translated by R. and D. Weaver, 1962) ch. 12<br />

6.30 David Reuben 1933—<br />

Everything you always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask.<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> book (1969)<br />

6.31 Charles Revson 1906-75

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