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Bill Mauldin

"My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it."

Source : Bill Mauldin, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (1978). “Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution”, Government Printing Office

Bill Mauldin

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“It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.”

Source : William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr
“We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.”
“The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late”
“The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.”
“How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!”
“I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.”

Source : Source: www.scholastic.com
“With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.”
“It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”

Source : "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

"My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it."

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