"For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life."

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Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Karl Marlantes

#War Quotes #Divorce Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Donâ€™t be silly. Loving is easy. Itâ€™s finding someone to love you back thatâ€™s hard.”
“One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.”
“I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.”
“I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.”
“My confidence level is a tremendous high.”
“I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Im the mold that grunge was grown in.”
“If we want to avoid a clash of cultures - and the jury is still out on whether we can - we'll have to make different cultures and religions compatible with the universal nature of human rights and tolerance. But I can promise you this: Anyone who calls me an infidel at the conference will be in for a fight.”

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