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The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to
be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

There is no Apocalypse.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.