"Home. One place is just like another, really.……" — Michael Shaara
"Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up there but I'm no stranger here. Have always felt at home everywhere, even in Virginia, where they hate me. Everywhere you go there's nothing but the same rock and dirt and houses and people and deer and birds. They give it all names, but I'm at home everywhere. Odd thing: unpatriotic. I was at home in England. I would be at home in the desert. In Afghanistan or far Typee. All mine, it all belongs to me. My world."
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11 Quotes by Michael Shaara
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Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never…
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It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.
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A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when…
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Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so…
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There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.
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Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?
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The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other…
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I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir,…
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If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere,…
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Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.
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More Afghanistan Quotes
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— James Buchan
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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