“I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.” WorldWantLongCharacterStoriesLiteratureGivenAbilityChainsAgentsHostPublishersLibrarianBooksellers Author:Karl Marlantes
“I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.” IfsWantTryingHumansMeanHuman BeingsMoralTaughtRaisedKillingDecentCombat Author:Karl Marlantes
“I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.” ThinkingWantNeedsKidsMilitaryHealthyBetter OffWaynePacifistIwo Jima Author:Karl Marlantes
“We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.” WantHumansAgeHuman BeingsSpecialUniqueIronyZeroCampsBootsStanding OutBoot Camp Book:What It Is Like To Go To War Source: What It Is Like To Go To War
