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“Maybe there is no death as we know it. Just documents changing hands.”
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Our fear is pure, so totally stripped of distractions and pressures as to be a form of transcendental meditation.
May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan.
In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one’s knowledge is less secure than your own.
He had a skinny neck and jug-handle ears to go with his starved skull—the innocent prewar look of a rural murderer.
Self-pity oozed through my soul. I tried to relax and enjoy it.
“Look past the violence.” “Exactly. Look past the violence, Jack. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.”
“Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.”
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”
