Blatherskite: Musings on editing, writing, and fiction

See <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/joseph_stalin> at “Misattributed.” Stalin likely never said that, but Erich Maria Remarque wrote something very much like it.

"Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik."

I translate that as:

“But it’s so true because death is always a tragedy—and two million always only a statistic.”

JakeR