"And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress."

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Source : "'Matterhorn' Author On What It's Like 'To Go To War'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 30, 2011.

Karl Marlantes

#Military Quotes #Stress Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!”
“So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”
“Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.”
“Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father.”
“We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.”
“Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words”

Source : "[Cannes Interview] ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.
“I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.”
“Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.”

Source : 1686 The Lucky Chance, act 4.

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