James D. Hornfischer Quote
War is unlike life, he said. It’s a denial of everything you learn life is. And that’s why when you get finished with it, you see that it offers no lessons that can’t be better learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget. A disconnect needs to be made to get yourself cleansed. His children were after him for thirty-five years to talk about it. I refused. I said ‘Read it in the history books. I can’t do it justice.’ We were closed up tight as a clam.
James D. Hornfischer
War is unlike life, he said. It’s a denial of everything you learn life is. And that’s why when you get finished with it, you see that it offers no lessons that can’t be better learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget. A disconnect needs to be made to get yourself cleansed. His children were after him for thirty-five years to talk about it. I refused. I said ‘Read it in the history books. I can’t do it justice.’ We were closed up tight as a clam.
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About James D. Hornfischer
A one-time book editor at the publishing company HarperCollins in New York, Hornfischer was later president of Hornfischer Literary Management, a literary agency in Austin, Texas.