"Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse."

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Source : Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.152, Canongate Books

Allan Massie

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Lying Quotes

“I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'”
“Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?”
“In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay.”
“Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 38. Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
“Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.”
“Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.”

Source : Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.24, Vintage
“Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.”
“If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.”

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