Quotes from Southern Victory — Harry Turtledove
born 1949 United States
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Your deplorable taste in politics aside, you’re an intelligent man.
That held enough truth to be provocative, not enough to be useful.
Nothing like a wound infection to take the romance out of war.
When you lose, Sis, the last war’s never over and done with.
But destroying white privilege only boosted white fear.
Know what you’re doing and you’ll never need to cheat.
Maybe’s a word that makes a lot of people sorry later.
An idea may be a good one no matter who propounds it.
What should matter and what does matter, monsieur, are not one and the same thing, I regret to say.
“We sure is crazy,” someone would say. “If you ain’t crazy in dis here place, you gots to be nuts.”
Only two promotions really mattered: the one up from buck private and the one to general’s rank.
Mooers might not have been in the middle of nowhere, but it wasn’t right at the edges, either.
They smelled of old sweat and leather and tobacco and mud: like soldiers, in other words.
You can’t get along with somebody who’s bound and determined not to get along with you.
A war is a disaster whether you win or you lose—it’s only a worse disaster if you lose.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harry Turtledove (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.