"Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity."

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Source : Elaine Scarry (1985). “The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World”, p.85, Oxford University Press

Elaine Scarry

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.”

Source : Maria Dahvana Headley (2015). “Magonia”, p.15, HarperCollins
“Cause if youâ€™re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay.”
“On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.”
“When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.”
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.”

Source : Floyd Dell (1921). “Were You Ever a Child?”
“Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone”
“However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'”
“We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all-that the wealth of individuals and of state is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization.”

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