Army-life Quote by Ben Fountain Download Open image ““Fake it till you make it, he reminds himself. This is how he’s survived Army life so far.”” — Ben Fountain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Army-life
“Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“The army leaves me time to think, and saves me from the battle of life.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“He was a real-life soldier playing soldier from his memories of made up soldiers.” — Alex London Copy Share Image
“He is the true soldier who knows how to die and stand his ground in the midst of a hail of bullets.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“And I can tell you, without question, that it’s too late for any man who goes to war. Even if he lives, he’ll never… — J. Nelle Patrick Copy Share Image
“Being here with you, smiling and laughing, it’s the first time I’ve done that since you left that it wasn’t fake. I need you… — Alison G. Bailey Copy Share Image
“You have to be careful how you fake it, though, because things like that can stick and before you know it you become what… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
“I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.” — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“The singing triggers a soft detonation at his core, molten parts of him are flying everywhere and his ears ring to the tune of… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Even harder was describing his sense that Shroom’s death might have ruined him for anything else, because when he died? when I felt his soul pass through me? I loved him so much right then, I don’t think I can ever have that kind of love for anybody again. So what was the point of getting married, having kids, raising… — Ben Fountain Copy Share
“Without ever exactly putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is standard trajectory. Something new appears in the world—a baby, say, or a car or a house, or an individual shows some special talent—with luck and huge expenditures of soul and effort you might keep the project stoked for a while, but eventually, ultimately, it's going… — Ben Fountain Copy Share
“But I am scared. Everybody's scared." "You know what I mean, like scared scared. Like coward scared, like if you never went to begin with. But with everything you've done nobody's going to doubt you." Then she made a somewhat frantic speech about a website she found that listed how certain people had avoided Vietnam. Cheney, Four education deferments, then… — Ben Fountain Copy Share
“God knows the war sucks, but he sees no great appeal in these tepid peacetime lives.” — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“What he'd like to say is that he's lived it, if not the entire breadth and depth of the Christian faith then certainly the… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes nothing is better than something. I mean, I’d rather have nothing than let this guy use me like his bitch.” — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“No it was my choice. It's what I wanted to do. And I knew they'd probably send me to Iraq. It's not like anybody lied to me." She groans. "Billy, all these mofos ever do is lie. You think if they halfway told the truth we'd even be in a fucking war? You know what I think, I think we… — Ben Fountain Copy Share
It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.” — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.” — Georg Rauch Copy Share Image
“Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don’t do it to win anymore; we do… — Angela Ricketts Copy Share Image
“War, on the other hand, was the result of failure; failure of diplomacy, failure of intelligence, failure to prepare, failure to act decisively when… — Col Don Wilson Copy Share Image
“Leading your Soldiers with the safety on as a condition of your own personal complacency is no different than running into battle with your… — Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army Copy Share Image
“An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world who knows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let’s face… — Aditi Mathur Kumar Copy Share Image