There is a healthy disrespect among veterans who served on the front lines for people who walk around telling war stories. — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war. — John Rae Copy Share Image
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When I'm an old dude in a rocking chair, I'll have these great war stories. — Matt Serra Copy Share Image
[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Never say war insane at the moment for you to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories. — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
“The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don’t understand how many of the immigrants and refugees… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Anyone who has been in business can tell war stories about the bumps in the road. But if they've outlasted the competition,… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
“I am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
In chatting to directors over the years, including James Wan, they always tell you the war stories. No one ever says, 'Oh,… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes.… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
“difference between his government’s ineptitude and his personal generosity. He’d nipped these items from the quartermaster’s store, and he couldn’t do much… — Win Blevins Copy Share Image
Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“A very important man used to visit her sometimes, and I met him too. He loved children and used to dandle me… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a soldier returns home and all he can do is share his story in the hopes that somehow, in some way,… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I hang out with my dad mostly, my dad was in the military. He's at that age now where his war stories… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main… — Dave Filoni Copy Share Image
“I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows... Or… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“To My Children, I'm dedicating my little story to you; doubtless you will be among the very few who will ever read… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“So you don’t fancy meeting up again?’ Max persisted, though Neve didn’t know why, because she thought she’d made her position perfectly… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing… — Bobby Thomson Copy Share Image
If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of… — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
If you go into a comic book store, there are tons of Star Wars stories on the stand. There are lots of… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
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