"When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated."

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Source : "Tulipe". Book by Romain Gary, 1946.

Romain Gary

#War Quotes #Loser Quotes #Winner Quotes

“Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is also civilian aviation and airpower is peace power.”
“I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.”
“NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud.”
“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
“It is beautiful to be what you are.”
“I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.”
“I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.”
“We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.”

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