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"To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given."
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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."
"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."
"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
"There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam."
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
"But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark."
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
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