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An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 5...

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He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal ...

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Johnny Got His Gun

New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty...

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Johnny Got His Gun

What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only...

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There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to th...

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If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enoug...

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Johnny Got His Gun

Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let's go out and fight for liberty and so they w...

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Johnny Got His Gun

They are talking like fools. They are saying that two and two make nothing. They are saying that a m...

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There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books sa...

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Johnny Got His Gun

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from anot...

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Johnny Got His Gun

How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of...

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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool o...

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They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) scr...

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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon...

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He was the future he was a perfect picture of the future and they were afraid to let anyone see what...

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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Eins...

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Dalton Trumbo

Screenwriter

Born: 1905-12-09

Died: 1976-09-10

Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film makers who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.More