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“...a large and ridiculous gunner told me that I looked like an out-of-work chorus boy. He was very startled when I told him that…

— william donaldson

“When it all started to dry up and the heaviness that I'd carried for so long began to was, giving me my first real…

— Abbi Glines

“As I learned the ropes I learned that for many good and sound reasons the bosses and the captains sent a guy to whack…

— Charles Brandt

“He was a big, bony man. Iron muscles shaped his jacket sleeves and quickly wore through new trousers. He had a way of imposing…

— Georges Simenon

“He was someone who had to live alone, someone who found it difficult to be with others for any length of time, because he…

— John Burnside

“He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He…

— Kathleen Koen

“He’d been around the island for a while, and I’m sorry to say that being bashed around in Battle and at raids had done…

— Christina Henry

“There are many qualities in a man, but one that is absolutely necessary in an infantry leader is stark courage.”

— Jim Proser

“Obviously he had aspired too high, or been too impatient; but it was his nature to be aspiring and impatient, and if he was…

— Edith Wharton

“If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a…

— Rosie Pugh

“...He called up the numbness with which he armed himself to get through each day.”

— Sandra Brown

“Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of…

— Vasily Grossman