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Too many talented people string and unstring their instruments without ever playing their music.
— Ken Standley
Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.
— Karl Marlantes
Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body
— Karl Marlantes
The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.
— Karl Marlantes
But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.
— Katharine Jefferts Schori
We all have shit on our shoes. We've just got to realize it so we don't track it into the house.
— Karl Marlantes
The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
— Karl Marlantes
Over time, continual bad news will discourage any civilian population, and Americans had the lowest tolerance on the planet for bad news.
— Karl Marlantes
Them. Too much activity, right where the colonel
— Karl Marlantes
Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans were responsible for it all.
— Karl Marlantes
When you are confronted with a seemingly painless moral choice, the odds are that you haven't looked deeply enough.
— Karl Marlantes
It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about
— Karl Marlantes
Dying this way was a better way to die because living this way was a better way to live. The
— Karl Marlantes
Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.
— Martin Freeman
The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.
— Alfred Polgar
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
— Karl Marlantes
Keep your temper. Nobody else wants it.
— Robin Jones Gunn
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
— Karl Marlantes
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
— Karl Marlantes
Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.
— Karl Marlantes
his heart would out-pace his feet and burst. His heart, his whole body, was overflowing with an emotion that he could only describe as love. He
— Karl Marlantes
You who are non-believers rely upon us, to confirm your sense of superiority. You need to imagine us as unchanged, unchangeable.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
— Karl Marlantes
Sailor's expressions ranged the gamut from A to Blank.
— B.V. Lawson