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In her world, men loved women as the fox loves the hare. And women loved men as the tapeworm loves the gut. — Pat Barker Regeneration

All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? — Haruki Murakami

Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics. — Pat Barker

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer. — Pat Barker

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. — Pat Barker

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do. — Pat Barker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession. — Pat Barker

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper. — Pat Barker

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face. — Pat Barker

First-person narrators can't die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha. — Pat Barker

Murder is only killing in the wrong place. — Pat Barker

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book. — Pat Barker

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and ... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen — Pat Barker

You instinctively like what you can't do. — Franz Kline

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics. — Pat Barker

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks. — Pat Barker

There is something I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything. — Werner Erhard

He's a bar-room socialist, if that's what you mean. Beer and revolution go in, piss come out — Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere. — Pat Barker

One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health. — Pat Barker

His happiness was almost painful, like circulation returning to a dead leg. — Pat Barker

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars. — Pat Barker

The white bowl of the street began to fill with darkness, from the pavement upwards, like somebody pouring tea into a cup. — Pat Barker

If "IT" doesn't break you, you have the opportunity to overtake "IT"! — Sanjo Jendayi

I always find heroes who are just like me,
I forget they're only human, and like me, broken — Terrence Alonzo Craft

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. — Pat Barker

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance. — Pat Barker

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge. — Pat Barker

We do not want to be haunds, teacher. We just want the haunds to go elsewhere for easy prey. — Maureen F. McHugh

I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos. — Paris Hilton

I think it's important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. — Kurt Vonnegut

Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner. — Pat Barker

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness. — Vladimir Putin