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My great uncle fought in WWI. His stories fascinated me. — Charles Todd

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. — Barbara W. Tuchman

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war. — David Jones

When he could stand it no longer, he fired a revolver up through the roof of his mouth, but he made a mess of it. — Ellen N. La Motte

And be very careful at the front, Paul."
Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are! — Erich Maria Remarque

Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy," I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life. — Cat Winters

Suffering is the common lot of man. — Theresa Breslin

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality. — Gabriel Chevallier

This is War. Things like this also happen in peace time, but not so obviously. — Ellen N. La Motte

Retreat, hell we just got here! — Lloyd Williams

Someone who is all wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. — Anonymous

If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner — Bangambiki Habyarimana

They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark
Of glory save the light in a friend's eye. — Edmund Blunden

It is as if Quincey has replaced the sun in my universe and it is around him that I spin. — Kate Cary

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence. — Paul Fussell

Don't let anything but your talent affect your success. — Jillian Mayer

I know everything,' said the boy, 'and what I don't know, I can find out. — Jacob Grimm

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm. — David Jones

If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble. — Paul Mazursky

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI. — Charles Todd

We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man. — Erich Maria Remarque

When I'm not happy, I can't play. That's just the way I am. — Jaromir Jagr

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow. — David Jones

I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love. — Erich Maria Remarque

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread. — Erich Maria Remarque

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood. — Sebastian Barry

It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness. — Jessie Douglas Kerruish

The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word. — David Jones

And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays! — Thomas Pynchon

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine. — Sebastian Faulks

I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell. — Siegfried Sassoon

I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous. — Anne Perry

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad. — Erich Maria Remarque

In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos. — Gabriel Chevallier

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. — Ten Bears

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem? — Thomas A Kempis

Can't you do just a little bit more?
pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries) — J.G. Morrison