"For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions."

-- William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

#War Quotes #Enemy Quotes #World Quotes

“The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone youâ€™d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.”

Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.84, Hachette UK
“Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.”
“Figure out the one solution - not three - that you want to see happen. There were quite a few things we could have gone after but we decided to focus on the commanders and that was a strategic decision because that, for us, would be the most vulnerable point and the most effective one that could immediately change.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.”
“I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.”
“Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.”
“As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough”
“I love con-men characters in film.”

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