Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed.
Patrick WhiteTags: war futility world-war-ii novels hotels comfort whisky
But not all Gaza residents were committed to the war. A reporter asked one of the Arabs what he most wanted. He was a taxi driver, father of ten. All he wanted was 'to eat and to work.' What did he think of Nasser? 'Nasser is good, Israel is good, America is good, Britain is good, Canada is good, India is good, Anything is good.
Robert John DonovanTags: peace war israel egypt middle-east gaza nasser
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
Don DeLilloToo young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.
Don DeLilloTags: war autobiography vietnam vietnam-war korean-war korea robert-mccrum
At time of peace, we should love one another.
At war, we should set our minds as the hunters.
Tags: peace war hunter winner mind-set
I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.
Tim O'BrienI don't play with my life by talking bullshit.
I might have some chances in this bitchy life,
but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...
my best shot.
Tags: life truth war chance chances give-your-best-shot tough-life
Human has no experience at all about
living in a peaceful world without war.
Everyday we are at war.
Peaceful mind is earned.
Tags: war everyday peace-of-mind earned
I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.
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