- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the fact that the news industry doesn't have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don't know how to get there.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be honest and state that Nazis were involved in all Austrian parties after the Second World War: in the Freedom Party, in the Socialist Party, and also in my party.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing that matters: I am a child of the eighties. I grew up in a neon wonderland of talking horses, compassionate bears, hair that didn't move in a stiff wind, and the constant threat of nuclear war.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have - and then go around saying: 'Actually, I'd also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?' That would be ridiculous.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is not an academic exercise.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is about dead people.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020