The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Joseph Heller
Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully.
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Diana Gabaldon
The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival
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Richard Powers
If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
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Megan Whalen Turner
Nadia's experiences during her first months as a single woman living on her own did, in some moments, equal or even surpass the loathsomeness and dangerousness that her family had warned her about. But she had a job at an insurance company, and she was...
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Mohsin Hamid
More Quotes By Ian Fleming
You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face
I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I...
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.
People are islands, ' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.
