Address Unknown

by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

We are vain and we are dishonest because it is necessary to triumph over other vain and dishonest persons.

A leader is found! Yet cautiously to myself I ask, a leader to where? Despair overthrown often turns us in mad directions.

The stormtroopers are having their moment of victory, and there are bloody heads and sad hearts to show for it.

if the end in view is right they pass and are forgotten. History writes a clean new page.

There is the way to keep a wife contented, Max. Keep her so busy with babies she has no time to fret.

nation today. Write me, my friend, and set my mind at ease.

I am sure as I write, as with the new vision my own enthusiasm burns, that you will not see how necessary is all this

You lament but you are never brave enough to fight back. That is why there are pogroms.

The man I have loved as a brother, whose heart has ever been brimming with sympathy and friendship, cannot possibly partake of even a passive partnership in the butchery of innocent people.

As all birth is brutal, so is this new birth of ours.

Diary of Florence in Flood, published to critical acclaim in both England and America

Address Unknown was published under the pen name Kressmann Taylor, as the editor believed the story ‘too strong to appear under the name of a woman’.