--- title: "1 American patriotism Quotes By Phil Klay" description: "1 American patriotism quotes by Phil Klay. Plus more from Phil Klay and more American patriotism sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/phil-klay-22216_american-patriotism_i-think-in-america-especially-today-our_3098547.jpg" --- > [I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power in this culture. They mainline directly into a whole series of emotional reactions and understandings of American patriotism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/i-think-in-america-especially-today-our-relationship-to-war-is/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/phil-klay-22216_american-patriotism_i-think-in-america-especially-today-our_3098547.jpg) ## More by Phil Klay > [Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/fiction-is-a-place-where-people-can-meet-where-they-take-the-time-to/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [“late for that,” said Major Zima. “Besides, if there’s one thing I’ve learned doing Civil Affairs in Iraq, it’s that it’s hard to come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/late-for-that-said-major-zima-besides-if-there-s-one-thing-i-ve/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/our-country-regularly-uses-military-force-but-only-a-fraction-of/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [Part of the reason I'm writing it is to try to figure out what that is myself. It's not like I came back from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/part-of-the-reason-i-m-writing-it-is-to-try-to-figure-out-what-that/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [“She spent all his combat pay before he got back, and she was five months pregnant, which, for a Marine coming back from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/she-spent-all-his-combat-pay-before-he-got-back-and-she-was-five/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [War is too strange to be processed alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/war-is-too-strange-to-be-processed-alone/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/there-are-two-ways-to-tell-the-story-funny-or-sad-guys-like-it-funny/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [“And glad as I was to be in the States, and even though I hated the past seven months and the only thing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/and-glad-as-i-was-to-be-in-the-states-and-even-though-i-hated-the/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [“Chaplain Vega’s a tall Mexican guy with a mustache that looks like it’s about to jump off his face and fuck the first rodent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/chaplain-vega-s-a-tall-mexican-guy-with-a-mustache-that-looks-like-it/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/it-s-not-so-much-the-question-that-offends-me-it-s-that-the-people/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/writing-fiction-means-putting-a-lot-of-what-you-believe-about-the/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [“In 2008, around the time I got there, the 82nd Air- borne was building greenhouses near Tikrit. It was a brave new world, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/in-2008-around-the-time-i-got-there-the-82nd-air-borne-was-building/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [The part of the strangeness of coming back from the war is the way we talk about it. We try to have a discussion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/the-part-of-the-strangeness-of-coming-back-from-the-war-is-the-way-we/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [“We shot dogs. Not by accident. We did it on purpose, and we called it Operation Scooby. I'm a dog person, so I thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/we-shot-dogs-not-by-accident-we-did-it-on-purpose-and-we-called-it/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) > [Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-klay/fiction-offered-me-tools-that-allowed-me-to-approach-a-wider-variety/) [Phil Klay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-klay/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-patriotism/phil-klay/#itemlist", "name": "1 American patriotism Quotes By Phil Klay", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power in this culture. 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