He depended on the resilience of certain men to nerve himself to his unnatural life.
Quotes from Birdsong — Sebastian Faulks
born 1953 England
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Jack already immune to death, let their white faces drift from his memory.
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Any man shirking his duty would be shot on the spot.
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There would be some decorum in their dying beneath the country they had fought so long to protect.
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His own [childhood] seemed so long ago that it was as is someone had lived it for him.
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He spoke no French and viewed all buildings, fields and churches as profoundly alien.
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Shells will fall on the reserve lines and we will not stop talking.
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But their breathing and their hearts worked as though one body.
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No child or future generation will know what this was like.
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Once more in ragged suicidal line. They trudged towards the pattering death of mounted guns.
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This is not a war. It is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.
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It is as though you stop living. Your mind goes dead.
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The place from which the boy had came was not just a better place but a better world.
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I feel guilty that I have survived when all the others are gone.
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Poor Fritz. He must be mad by now under those guns.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sebastian Faulks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.