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War is what happens when language fails. - Margaret Atwood

War is what happens when language fails. – Margaret Atwood

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I dont think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. Its essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. – Margaret Atwood

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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. – Marjane Satrapi

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War. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable. – DanielHa

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In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. – Gene Tierney

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Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. – George Orwell

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[T]hat is the triumph of history – truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist. – Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors

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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. – Vita Sackville-West

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Music is the soul of language. – Max Heindel

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I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal

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