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Harry Turtledove
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“Anytime a politician said he wouldn’t beat around the bush, you were well advised to keep your hand on your wallet.”
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“Anyone who forces something on someone and then says he will be better for it—you will, I hope, understand me when I say this is difficult to appreciate.”
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“They’d kill him or he’d kill them. War reduced everything to a brutal simplicity.”
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“Whites are so mystified, they put race ahead of class.”
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“It’s not the way it was any more,” he said, half to himself. “Nothing is the way it was anymore.”
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“Martin was convinced the military police attracted self-righteous sons of bitches the way spilled sugar drew ants.”
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“Fashion made a harsh mistress.”
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“The War Department had never forgiven Jake for being right.”
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“Major Potter isn’t a pal—not exactly, anyhow.” As far as he could see, the only thing he and the bespectacled major had in common was an unbounded contempt for the bluebloods who, because of who their grandfathers had been, got a higher rank and a bigger arena in which to display their blunders than they deserved.”
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“The War Department has all sorts of opinions,” he said, sneering as he had when Dowling announced the Roosevelt was there. “A few of them bear a discernible relation to the real world—but only a few, mind you.”
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“You have a fine stump speech there, Congresswoman, and I think you are sincere in it, but it doesn’t altogether match the way the world works.”
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“When you lose, Sis, the last war’s never over and done with.”
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“A fisherman who wasn’t a born pessimist hadn’t been going to sea long enough.”
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“Moss sighed and nodded. Might-have-beens was a stupid game, when you got right down to it. Look back on things, and you couldn’t help but see they’d come out the way they had to come out.”
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“The bullet doesn’t care who shot it, only where it’s going.”
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“He sees the country going forward. He doesn’t see the suffering he’s creating to make it go in the direction he wants.”
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“She was only eight years old, and still confused the way things should have been with the way they were.”
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“Lieutenant Crowder reported that submersible as probably destroyed, and if you don’t think Lieutenant Crowder knows everything in the world, well, shit, just ask him.”
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“Some of those men were black, the new units going forward along with the white troops who have been in the field for years. The Negro soldiers charged straight at the U.S. trenches; they weren’t skilled in the fire-and-move tactics the veterans had learned by painful experience. And they went down in gruesome numbers. When they screamed, Bartlett couldn’t tell their voices from those of white men.”
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“I’ll tell you, though, this whole business of war would be a hell of a lot more fun if you didn’t get shot.”
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“Potter studied him. “I never have figured out how smart you are, Featherston, but you’ve made it plain you’re shrewd enough and to spare. If you hadn’t made the fatal mistake of being right at the wrong time, we might have the same rank by now.”
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“The only people who love a war are those who have never fought in one.”
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“Maybe we’ll get some use out of battleships in the next war after all.” He didn’t doubt there would be a next war; there would always be a next war.”
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“I must conclude that my views on the subject are also the views of the large majority of the American people.” That was probably true. Because of it, Flora did not have a good opinion of the political wisdom of the large majority of the American people. Nationalism kept too many from voting their class interests.”
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“Don’t do anything to make things worse was the eleventh commandment of the ghetto, at least as important as the original ten.”
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“Down near the Florida border, Georgia could give South Carolina lessons in heat and humidity.”
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“Scipio would sooner have gone on without the revolution than the other way around.”
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“It was like dying and going to hell, except a little hotter and a little stickier. July in Tennessee was not the ideal weather in which to fight in a barrel.”
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“I’ve been thinking,” George Enos said…. Beside him, Carl Sturtevant was panting more than a little. “Probably won’t do you any lasting harm,” he said.”
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“What people believe and what they’ll do because they believe it is a big part of what’s real, especially in politics.”
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“You’re still learning the difference between being an agitator and being a politician. Listen to me, Flora.” He sounded very earnest. “Compromise is not a dirty word.” “Maybe it should be,” she answered.”
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“Pretty damn soon, the Rebs’ll pack it in here, too, I expect,” Carlton said. “Every blasphemy that passes your lips means a hotter dose of hellfire in the world to come,” McSweeney answered.” I’ve seen enough hellfire right here on earth,” Carlton said. “The kind of the preachers go on about don’t worry me as much as it used to.”
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“Do I tell you how to arrange your life, Carlton?” he demanded. “Only when you open your mouth,” Ben answered. “Sir.”
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“She looked so angelic, any real angel who saw her would have been extremely suspicious.”
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“Has anyone ever told you, sir, that you may be too damn smart for your own good?” “A whole raft of people, Colonel Landis,” Morrell answered cheerfully. “Once or twice, they’ve even been right.”
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“A man who couldn’t see truth when it tried to shoot him wouldn’t live long, and didn’t deserve to.”
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“He hated parliamentary procedure, but he’d started learning it anyhow, even if he did think it was only a way to cheat by the numbers.”
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“There’s no such thing as glory, near as I can tell. If the machine guns didn’t kill it, the artillery did.”
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“That held enough truth to be provocative, not enough to be useful.”
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“I’ll be all right,” Nellie said. “This is something God meant women to do.” And if that doesn’t prove God is a man, I don’t know what does.”
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“He was still very young, young enough to believe in the tooth fairy, the common sense of Congress, and a great many other unlikelihoods.”
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“Your deplorable taste in politics aside, you’re an intelligent man.”
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“Anne saw his attention focus on her. It still wasn’t the look a man gave an attractive woman: more like the look a sniper gave a target.”
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“I don’t hide anything I aim to do; I just come right out and say it.” An alarm whistle went off in Anne’s head; any man who said something like that was almost bound to be lying.”
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“Anne took her own attractiveness so much for granted, a man who showed he wasn’t completely in her grasp often succeeded in piquing her interest by sheer contrariness.”
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“Proclaiming they had the answers was the easy part. Really having them, and making them work—that looked harder. That looked a hell of a lot harder to him. But some people would buy castles in the air because they were short of beans on the ground.”
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“Agnes might know what she was doing heading into this marriage, but he didn’t. He had no clue; marriage wasn’t part of the curriculum at West Point. Maybe it should be, he thought. It might not produce better officers, but was very likely to produce happier ones.”
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“Falling asleep in a corset was impressive proof of what exhaustion could do.”
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“You can’t get along with somebody who’s bound and determined not to get along with you.”
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“They wouldn’t understand no matter what, any more than they would understand what life in the trenches was like. Experience brought understanding. Nothing else came close.”
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