The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here
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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back ... the act of description taints the description.
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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
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