Action Quote by Casey Spooner

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men…

— Tim O'Brien

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it…

— Deborah Sampson

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

— Harry Elmer Barnes

Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost,…

— Eckhart Tolle

“War is like art. It paints a picture mixed with lies and truths in order to help one find something absolute. It brings out…

— Lionel Suggs

“themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ……

— Doris Lessing

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there…

— Aberjhani

“It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty... Like a killer forest fire, like cancer…

— Tim O'Brien

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away…

— Chris Cleave

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have,…

— Steve Martin

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a…

— Tim O'Brien

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos