"With the war in Iraq, I had the cooperation of the Department of Defense. Kuwait was pretty eager to get American journalists in there, to show us what a wonderful place they are, and what great allies they are to America, even though they didn't actually fight in the war."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Kuwait Quotes

“The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.”
“Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.”
“I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.”
“Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.”
“The written word endures, the spoken word disappears”
“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”
“In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.”

Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated
“I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.”

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