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Quote by Anatole Broyard
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. – Anatole Broyard

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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. – Anatole Broyard

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Poetry
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Anatole Broyard
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To be misunderstood can be the writers punishment for having disturbed the readers peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. – Anatole Broyard

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Peace
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war. – Bianca Jagger

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I consider Bushs decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning. – Jurgen Habermas

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The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. – Robert E. Lee

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