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“There was something strangely compelling about a Japanese guy with lamb-chop sideburns and a voice so shrill you could be forgiven for thinking his…

— Jamie Holoran

“There Is No Such Thing as a Diplomatic Hand Grenade”

— Douglas Stone

“It's not a bomb, you ignorant fuck! It's a grenade!”

— Abigail Roux

“Just then, a little hopped-up Japanese car zips up next to us. It’s bright yellow with loud, high-pitched exhaust pipes and a big air…

— Michael Zadoorian

“Four more times the Japanese strafed them, sending Louie into the water to kick and punch at the sharks until the bomber had passed.”

— Laura Hillenbrand

“There is this amazing scene in the story: A boy and a girl, explaining the rules of Bingo, become the center of the Universe…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“If Stalin or Hitler arrested me and tossed me into one of those camps, I would carve words with my fingernails. If they cut…

— Conrad Wesselhoeft

“The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“...imagine you’re minding your own business, walking down the mall, looking for the perfect beard comb. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a midget ninja jumps…

— Philip Rivera

“out my cigarettes, break each one in half and give them to the Russians. They bow to me and then light the cigarettes. Now…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“The banner shoots out of my hands and its pointy metal tip knocks Stalin’s plaster nose clean off his face.”

— Eugene Yelchin

“They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple…

— Evan Wright