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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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"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."
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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
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"It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq."
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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."
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"In a war, the first casualty is human dignity."
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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."
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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."
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Explore more quotes by Antonia Fraser
"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people."
People
"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
Crime
"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
Creativity
"My mother was a politician in my formative years."
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"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."
Ethics
"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history."
History
"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
Dress
"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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"That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing."
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"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
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