Harry Turtledove on War
born 1949 United States
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The only people who love a war are those who have never fought in one.
During a war, nobody ever showed up on time, except possibly the enemy.
They’d kill him or he’d kill them. War reduced everything to a brutal simplicity.
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.
A war is a disaster whether you win or you lose—it’s only a worse disaster if you lose.
Only thing worse than fighting a war and winning is fighting a war and losing.
He didn’t doubt there would be a next war; there would always be a next war.
The North American air war struck Potter as a duel with machine guns at a pace and a half.
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. Its glory is all moonshine.
In war, proving the other guy was wrong often meant proving he had no business breathing.
War was rapidly doing what war did—making ugly everything it touched.
The War Department had never forgiven Jake for being right.
That was something else war was about: not caring.
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