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It was like dying and going to hell, except a little hotter and a little stickier. July in Tennessee was not the ideal weather in which to fight in a barrel.
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She was only eight years old, and still confused the way things should have been with the way they were.
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That was true, but, like a lot of true things, didn’t tell the whole story or even most of it.
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She looked so angelic, any real angel who saw her would have been extremely suspicious.
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Martin was convinced the military police attracted self-righteous sons of bitches the way spilled sugar drew ants.
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Dowling had long since abandoned optimism along with the other illusions of his youth.
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Martyrdom was easier to contemplate in the abstract than to embrace in the flesh.
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Moonlight had a way of letting you down when you needed it most.
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The War Department had never forgiven Jake for being right.
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It was like trying to kill a butterfly with an axe.
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That was something else war was about: not caring.
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The lad was at an age where he was inclined to believe things would turn out as he wanted for no better reason than that he wanted them to turn out so.
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She knew the sea too well ever to trust it.
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The party and the CSA could get by without a lot of fellows who brought only fanaticism. Losing somebody with brains would have hurt much more. Brains were harder to come by.
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That wasn’t even close to fair, and Sylvia knew it. But she’s already seen that political campaigns weren’t designed to be fair. They were designed to convince, by whatever means possible.
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At sixteen, you knew you could do the impossible.
At forty-three, you knew damn well you couldn’t.
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Flora wasn’t sure she liked that in the abstract; whom a man knew shouldn’t have mattered so much as what he knew. But that didn’t change reality one bit.
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An army that was winning had little backbiting. When things went wrong, everyone was at pains to prove the misfortune could not possibly have been his fault.
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Like a man who’d sweet-talked a girl into bed with him, Sergeant Pound cared little about the whys and wherefores. All he cared about was that it had happened.
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Don’t be dumber than you can help, all right? If you reckon you’re the only one in the world with troubles, what does that make you? Besides a damn fool, I mean?
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