"But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting."

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Source : Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

Philip Gibbs

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“Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls”
“Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.”
“It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.”

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“Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers.”

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“No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.”
“I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?”
“I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have nor the parson's comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.”
“There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”

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