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When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hea — Kara Martinelli, My Very Dearest Anna
If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor l — Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine. — Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
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, All Quiet on the Western Front
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who sai — Ernest Hemingway
We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you wouldn't fight agai — Catherynne M. Valente
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one. — Wilfred Owen, The War Poems
The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that — Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagini — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anyt — Wilfred Owen, The Poems Of Wilfred Owen
...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of every — James D. Hornfischer
War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see — Robert Graff
He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and beli — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became po — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private — Bertrand Russell
I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever — Paul Nash
It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness. — Jessie Douglas Kerruish, The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension
A third-grader when WWII started, I was also waging my own "war effort." It was deeply magical thinking—I really thought — Ann Medlock
People spoke in whispers, as if the war was listening — Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
People who try to tell you what the blitz was like in London start with fire and explosion and then almost invariably en — John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal