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Sara Sheridan

"People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really."

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"People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really."

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Amber Hurdle

"To hold a pen is to be at war."

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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."

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"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."

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"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"

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Amber Hurdle

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."

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"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."

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"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."

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"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

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"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

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"I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good."
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"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."
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