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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying....more

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that ha...more

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You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

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We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position ...more

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World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the write...more

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He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last countr...more

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I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes...more

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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I w...more

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That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off b...more

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I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done w...more