Long Afterward Quotes by Bruce Catton

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• To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good…
• And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet…
• Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it…
• A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
• The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the…
• In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an…
• Early youth is a baffling time
• Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty…
• I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded,…
• Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
• A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and…
• There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a…

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