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 White

Mots clés war futility world-war-ii novels hotels comfort whisky

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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 Donovan

Mots clés peace war israel egypt middle-east gaza nasser

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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 DeLillo

Mots clés war guns culture bombs

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Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

Don DeLillo

Mots clés war autobiography vietnam vietnam-war korean-war korea robert-mccrum

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At time of peace, we should love one another.
At war, we should set our minds as the hunters.

Toba Beta

Mots clés peace war hunter winner mind-set

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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'Brien

Mots clés war stories vietnam

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I 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.

Toba Beta

Mots clés life truth war chance chances give-your-best-shot tough-life

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Human has no experience at all about
living in a peaceful world without war.

Toba Beta

Mots clés life peace war

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Everyday we are at war.
Peaceful mind is earned.

Toba Beta

Mots clés war everyday peace-of-mind earned

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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.

John Fowles

Mots clés war death

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