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“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”

Men Taken Ordinary Army Died Iron Prisoner Ordinary Man Bronze

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.”

War Done Suffering Hurt Gone Taken Betrayal Revenge Mood Treated Prisoner Traitor Collaborators

Author:Diet Eman

“As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.”

Giving Happens Lines Marriage Roles Taken Our Lives Shapes Suits Prisoner Armor Hardened Suits Of Armor

Book:Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir

Source: Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir

“Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends.”

Thinking Humans Said Ends Taken Our Lives Blood Human Nature Breaths Fellows Prison Sentences Storytelling Narrative Prisoner Circulation Narration Pascal

Author:A. S. Byatt

“My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.”

Ifs Has Beens Said Lying Issues Taken Policy Position Torture Prisoner Vietnamese Of Context Pow

Author:Jane Fonda