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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduc...more

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Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a littl...more

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It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ord...more

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If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

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...there are times when silence is a poem.