"The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal."

-- Pearl S. Buck

#War Quotes #Reality Quotes #Men Quotes

“Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.”
“A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.”
“One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
“Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?”
“Your heart is like glass, if it breaks, it's pretty hard to put it back together again.”
“We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.”
“We have to remember Damien Duff is one of the most good players in the Premiership”
“Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine.”

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