Behold those times re-created bythe brutal power of sunlit images, the light of life’s tragedy. The walls of the trial, the fieldof the firing squad; and the distantghost of Rome’s suburbs in a ring, gleaming white in naked light. Gunshots: our death, our survival.
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 Pier Paolo Pasolini
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
The fury of confession, at first, then the fury of clarity: It was from you, Death, that such hypocriticalobscure feeling was born! And nowlet them accuse me of every passion, let them bad-mouth me, let them say I’m deformed, impure, obsessed, a dilettante, a perjurer....
Every day my anxiety is higher, every day the grief more mortal. Today more than yesterday terror exalts me…
The birds sang in the dustin an elaborate weave, ambiguous, deafening, prey to existencepoor passions lost between the modestsummits of groves of mulberry and elder;and I, like them, in secluded placesreserved for the lost and pure, would wait for evening to fall, for the silent...
We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason.
