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I’ll tell you, though, this whole business of war would be a hell of a lot more fun if you didn’t get shot.
Southern Victory (1997)
The Confederate States had been founded on the principle that change was a bad idea.
Southern Victory (1997)
The only people who love a war are those who have never fought in one.
Southern Victory (1997)
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
A man who couldn’t see truth when it tried to shoot him wouldn’t live long, and didn’t deserve to.
Southern Victory (1997)
You can have as much fun in a library as you can at the cinema, and it doesn’t cost you anything.
Southern Victory (1997)
What people believe and what they’ll do because they believe it is a big part of what’s real, especially in politics.
Southern Victory (1997)
A man who gets angry at the truth will have a hard time in life, don’t you think?
Opening of the World (2007)
A fisherman who wasn’t a born pessimist hadn’t been going to sea long enough.
Southern Victory (1997)
If you want your freedom, go and take it."
Ruled Britannia (2002)
“Death is never dignified.” O’Doull spoke with a doctor’s certainty. “Never. Dignity in death is something we invent afterwards to make the living feel better.”
Southern Victory (1997)
During a war, nobody ever showed up on time, except possibly the enemy.
Southern Victory (1997)
Lieutenant Crowder reported that submersible as probably destroyed, and if you don’t think Lieutenant Crowder knows everything in the world, well, shit, just ask him.
Southern Victory (1997)
They’d kill him or he’d kill them. War reduced everything to a brutal simplicity.
Southern Victory (1997)
“We’d never—” Alexander began, but he didn’t finish the sentence. When you were in a war, who could say what you might be driven to do?
Southern Victory (1997)
The difference between bad and worse is a lot bigger than the difference between good and better.
Southern Victory (1997)
Poffenberger eyed Pound the way a man wearing a suit made of pork chops might eye a nearby bear.
Southern Victory (1997)
You kill everybody who doesn’t want to see reason, people will get mighty thin on the ground mighty fast.
Southern Victory (1997)
The desire not to look bad before one’s fellow man is a strange, compelling, and terribly powerful thing.
Southern Victory (1997)
Hardly anything is more pleasant than talking about why other people are a pack of damn fools.
Southern Victory (1997)