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"This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea."
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"It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know."
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"Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself."
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"Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later."
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"Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman."
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"The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large."
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"We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives."
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"He kills her in her own humor."
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"Was there ever a war where only one side bled?"
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"Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night."
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"Do you know what I think?" Marcone said."You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.""Yes."I drew my gun. "Okay."
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"Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins."
Psychology
"Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
Philosophy
"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."
War
"What is it?Nothing. I had a bad dream.What did you dream about?Nothing.Are you okay?No.He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.I was crying. But you didnt wake up.I'm sorry. I was just so tired.I meant in the dream."
Sensitivity
"They began to come upon chains and packsaddles, singletrees, dead mules, wagons. Saddletrees eaten bare of their rawhide coverings and weathered white as bone, a light chamfering of miceteeth along the edges of the wood. They rode through a region where iron will not rust nor tin tarnish. The ribbed frames of dead cattle under their patches of dried hide lay like the ruins of primitive boats upturned upon that shoreless void and they passed lurid and austere the black and desiccated shapes of horses and mules that travelers had stood afoot."
Reflection
"You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation."
Life
"Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And for a long time afterward, he would have reason to recall those smiles and reflect upon the goodwill that inspired them — for it had the power to protect, to confer honor, and to strengthen resolve. It had the power to hear men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted."
Reflection
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."
Trust
"There is no God and we are his prophets."
Philosophy
"Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed."
Life
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