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Vera Brittain

"I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke."

-- Vera Brittain

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“Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.”
“About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.”

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“Todayâ€™s events are tomorrowâ€™s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing history is writing the soul of the pastâ€¦ so that the present generation may learn from past mistakes, be inspired by their ancestorâ€™s sacrifices, and take responsibility for the future.”
“Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.”
“Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.”
“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”
“The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,”
“My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.”

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