"War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it."

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Source : Anthony Ryan (2012). “Blood Song”, p.360, Penguin

Anthony Ryan

#War Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”
“We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.”

Source : Josef Škvorecký (1986). “The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death”, Picador
“A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.”
“If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.”
“And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.”
“And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.”
“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
“I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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