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“Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not…

— Guy Sajer

“Alexander (at the trial of Philotas): How much happier to have fallen in the fighting, felled by a foe, rather than die by a…

— Andrew Chugg

“Lawrence's claims for the vital self and his inability to make it convincing independently of Freudian psychology are serious flaws in the novel, explain…

— John E. Stoll

“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be…

— Guy Sajer

“...it is not the victory but why a man fights the battle which makes him a hero. Kate speaking to Callum in LAIRD OF…

— Paula Quinn

“And now I know the extent of Sterling's bravery. It was narrowly focused, but it was pure and unadulterated. I twas a kind of…

— Kevin Powers

“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Robert used to tell me it is not the victory but why a man fights the battle which makes him a hero”

— Paula Quinn

“There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend…

— Jeanette Winterson

“He knew in advance what O’Brien would say: that the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good…

— George Orwell

“Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.”

— Jean Plaidy

“This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let…

— Malcolm Bradbury