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War After Quotes by Sarah Vowell
- History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
- Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History…
More War After Quotes
- War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt. — Samuel B. Pettengill
- War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams… — Unknown Author
- After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy. — Loudon Wainwright III
- History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. — Sarah Vowell
- [democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam… — David Frum
- The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored. — Gideon Raff
- After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile,… — Martha Gellhorn
- I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War… — Walter Dean Myers
- There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so… — Kurt Vonnegut
- Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a… — Sarah Vowell
- There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it… — John Wyndham
- I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew,… — Katherine Applegate