"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."

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"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."

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"But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago."

Joe Baca, American Politician

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"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

War, Nation, Renunciation, Self

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer

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"War is the business of barbarians."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?"

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

George Orwell, British Author

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"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."

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"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"

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"If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us."

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"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."

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"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."

Family

"King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them."

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"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."

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