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People who try to tell you what the blitz was like in London start with fire and explosion and then almost invariably end up with some very tiny detai...more

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There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the fles...more

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Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reached it, Curley bounced in."You seen a girl around ...more

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There are several ways to wear a hat or a cap. A man may express himself in the pitch or tilt of a hat, but not with a helmet. It won't go on any othe...more

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The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

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It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm...more

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You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn’t of much importance. Most of your orders will be unp...more

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Lanser had been in Belgium and France twenty years before and he tried not to think what he knew—that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of inc...more

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War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

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In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but...more