Short Century Quotes

“The twentieth will be a short century,” he said. “Either we or the Soviets will launch the missiles before long, and all the lies will be burned away.”
― David Burr Gerrard, Short Century

“I think that we were both wrong. I think that Arthur had sex with his sister to create a short century.”
“Daddy, what are you talking about?”
“He was trying to end something, and by ending it start something totally new.”
― David Burr Gerrard, Short Century

“The months after the fall of the Wall constituted one of the few points in history when the past seemed to lead to the future, rather than the reverse. Historians would later mark it as the end of the twentieth century, the period dominated by murderous plans to perfect the world, the ‘short century’ of 1914 to 1989.”
― David Burr Gerrard, Short Century