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"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
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"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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"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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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity
"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
Sacrifice
"The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water."
Nature
"You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his."
Spiritual
"You know I'm no squealer, Harry.''You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.''I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.''They can't make it fast enough to keep you a good man,' I told him. But I didn't worry about him any more because who was going to believe him?"
Friendship
"Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
Psychology
"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
Love
"Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job."
Creativity
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
Books
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
Death
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