"It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours."

-- George Orwell

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It's very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.”

Source : "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.
“[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.”

Source : The Observer, August 07, 1966.
“I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.”
“Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.”
“Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code.”
“The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.”
“I am pleased to inform you of the decision of the Government of the Republic of Iraq to allow the return of the United Nations weapons inspectors to Iraq without conditions.”

Source : "Iraq agrees to weapons inspections", www.cnn.com. September 17, 2002.

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