Michael Shaara Quotes
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Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.
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It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.
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A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war…
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Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was simply to…
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Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same.…
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There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.
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Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?
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The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.
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I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now,…
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If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no…
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Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.
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