"He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing."

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Source : Chris Bohjalian (2012). “The Sandcastle Girls”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

Chris Bohjalian

#Soldier Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Said Quotes

“The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed”
“I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.”
“You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.”
“The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.”
“scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.”

Source : Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Our experiences tend to support our belief systems.”

Source : T. J. MacGregor (1988). “Death Sweet”
“I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.”
“My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.”

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