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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. — Kurt Vonnegut

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition. — Nicole Krauss

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything. — Phil Klay

I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal. — Ralph Webster

The population decided - out of sheer panic at first - to carry on as if nothing had happened.
- Air War and Literature: The Zurich Lectures — W.G. Sebald

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple. — Ralph Webster

I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum. — Kanye West

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald. — Harold Holzer

You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war (James 4:1, 2). — Richard J. Foster

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. — Samuel Butler

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. — Dejan Stojanovic

Once a person has declared "failure", they cease to look for the alternate open door. When in reality it was just inches away and wide open. — Lindsey Rietzsch

To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life. — Elizabeth Goudge

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch. — Monique Wittig

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. — Jane Austen

A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you. — Anthony Liccione

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. — Stephen Hawking

It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God — Andy Stanley

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty. — Erma Bombeck

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away. — Dejan Stojanovic

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. — Norman Mailer

At Delphi I prayed
to Apollo
that he maintain in me
the flame of the poem
and I drank of the brackish
spring there ... — Denise Levertov

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity. — Randy Thornhorn