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"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory...There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity...Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates."

"The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them"

"He said we were all cooked in another year. He said were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war." Very little media cant throughly dismantle the supposed glories of war. Hemingway, in this novel, does so with ease.

"Still nobody was whipping any one on the Western front. Perhaps wars weren't won any more. Maybe they went on forever."

"I was blow up while we were eating cheese." The absurdity of war.