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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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Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible. – Elizabeth Bowen

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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasnt easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. – John le Carre

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I did a production of Journeys End, an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, You know, you could really do this if you wanted to. – Tom Hiddleston

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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure. – Abraham Lincoln

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill

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