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"I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was."
"A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing."
"all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war"
"Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about."
"I want a military funeral when I diethe bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingsomething I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community."
"That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something."
"Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes."
"My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany."
"I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books."
"As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting."
"In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it."
"What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone."
"Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life."
