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"Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years; - and yet too much for twenty years."
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"Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt."

"Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained."

"The fights are always the same."

"More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one."

"I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day."

"It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes."

"Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again."

"There's an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition."

"We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody."
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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."

"We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces."

"This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war."

"Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mnogo iskustva."

"Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy."

"Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!"

"A man has to have something he can put faith in. Can't you see that? What I want is someone that will love me, she would have me and I her. Otherwise a man may just go hang himself."

"What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has been killing."
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