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“When he was asked why he did not have children, he replied, "because of my love for children." And they say that when his mother tried to compel him to marry he would say, "It is not yet the right time," and then, as she insisted when he was no longer young, "It is no longer the right time.”
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“We possess ideas, but we are possessed by feelings. They lie too deep for understanding, astir with their own secret life and carrying us with them.”
― The Year of the French
― The Year of the French
“if piety and patriotism ever had a bedfellow, it was violence.”
― Cutter and Bone
― Cutter and Bone
“Our middle age is going to be uniquely horrible. We'll be alone with our cats and our books. No one wants to admit it, but that's where it ends up. Solitude plus cats.”
― The Glass Kingdom
― The Glass Kingdom
“Another thing I had learned in Vietnam was that there are worse things than death, such as not being able to look anyone straight in the eye, especially the man in the mirror.”
― Means Of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam
― Means Of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam
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