Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Absence
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Experience isnt interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Experience
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I cant go to war with paparazzi. – Daniel Craig

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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal. – Dennis Kucinich

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The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented. – Hamid Karzai

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