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"I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War."
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"Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?"
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"Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war."
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"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."
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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."
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"Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?"
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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
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"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."
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"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."
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"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."
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"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."
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"The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel."
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"That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world."
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"I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War."
War
"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
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"Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore."
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"I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't."
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