Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator for 36 years from 1939 until his death.
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It's funny how much of the miseries of this world are caused by short people –they are so much more quick-tempered and difficult to get on than the tall ones.
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― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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Besides the local residents, Meraud frequently entertained visitors from other parts of the world. There was an extremely eccentric Spanish marquise, a royalist who had fled Franco and was plotting the return of the monarchy to Spain. She was an aggressive lesbian who seemed to expect Meraud to provide her with a female companion. Meraud balked at this, complaining that she had no intention of procuring for any of her guests. One day the marquise showed me the jacket of a book she had written ab
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― Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business
― Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business
