Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line...
His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.
I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.
Remember: You are no one. You have no name. You do not speak, you do not look at them, you do not volunteer for anything. You work, bot not so hard they notice you. Gizela. Zytka. Your parents, Oskar...
If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls-
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persu...
Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it. (Mirella)Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated. (Schramm)
We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you wouldn't fight against an evil like that. It was so black and white on our side, and on our side so...
Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
One of the things I cannnot grasp, though I have often written about them, trying to get them into some kind of bearable perspective, Steiner writes, is the time relation. Steiner has just quoted desc...
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
I watched the sky as it turned from silver to grey to the colour of rain. Even the clouds tried to look the other way.
He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.
I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emot...
If you live your life in fear and had the opportunity to change. . .could you muster the strength?
How astounding that the largest thing he'd ever seen was still no match for the diminishing effect of distance. It made him aware of his own smallness in the world, his insignificance in the face of w...
Our muddy machine gun pits were transformed into Courage Clubs when bombs fell or Japanese warships pounded us from the sea. There was protocol to be observed, too, and it was natural that the poor fe...
I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic insp...
I... He struggled to answer. When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds. He...
Life, oblivious to his grief, continued
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