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• The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out…
• Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
• The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.
• You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody…
• A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.
• The result was I went nowhere.
• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars,
• Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar,…
• Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.
• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in…
• Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
• It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

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