My God, war is not about bathrooms. War is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless. War is about winning.
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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
You cannot be politically correct in a war.
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
War is not a thing one wants.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
The word war itself has a kind of glazing abstraction to it that conjures up bombs and bullets and so on, whereas my goal is to try to, so much as I can, capture the heart and the stomach and the back of the throat of readers who can lie in bed at night and participate in a story.
War is a contagion.
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