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“In life, toughness and roughness go together.”

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“Alistair smiled. 'How long this war has been.' 'I'll say. One hardly remembers how we lived before. Lightly - not worrying much.' 'Do you suppose we shall ever live that way again?' 'Oh, who knows? Given sufficient champagne and ether.' 'Maybe if we stay drunk to the end of our days we shan't remember.”

Book:Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

Source: Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

“War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.”

Book:The Dread Wyrm

Source: The Dread Wyrm

“I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.”

Book:Without End: New and Selected Poems

Source: Without End: New and Selected Poems

“It struck me that such analyses had it backward. It’s the American public for whom the Iraq War is often no more real than a video game. Five years into this war, I am not always confident most Americans fully appreciate the caliber of the people fighting for them, the sacrifices they have made, and the sacrifices they continue to make. After the Vietnam War ended, the onus of shame largely fell on the veterans. This time around, if shame is to be had when the Iraq conflict ends - and all indications are there will be plenty of it - the veterans are the last people in America to deserve it. When it comes to apportioning shame my vote goes to the American people who sent them to war in a surge of emotion but quickly lost the will to either win it or end it. The young troops I profiled in Generation Kill, as well as the other men and women in uniform I’ve encountered in combat zones throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, are among the finest people of their generation. We misuse them at our own peril.”

Inspirational War Iraq War

Book:Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

Source: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!”

War Humor Nostalgia Irony Torture Middle Ages Medieval Fortresses

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.”

Book:Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Source: Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.”

War Allies Treaty

Book:The Return of the King

Source: The Return of the King

“All is fair in fashion and war.”

War Fashion Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Author:Thisuri Wanniarachchi

“It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and you are no different from any other race. Family? Has Priam not killed wayward sons? When a king dies do his sons not go to war with one another to succeed him? Men speak of how you reacted to your father's death. They say it was amazing, for you did not order your little brother's execution. Your race thrives on blood and death, Helikaon. Your ships raid the coasts of other nations, stealing slaves, burning and plundering. Warriors brag of how many men they have killed, and women they have raped. Almost all of your kings either seized their thrones with swords and murder, or are children of men who seized power with swords and murder. So put all this talk of honour to one side.”

War Family Murder Honour

Book:Shield of Thunder

Source: Shield of Thunder

“The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.”

Author:Brenna Yovanoff