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There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad.

— James Jones The Thin Red Line (1962)

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This is the song of the men who have no place, played by a man who has never had a place, and can therefore play it.

If I get it, no one will ever know to what heights I might have gone as a writer. Maybe if you wrote about the promise that was there, all wouldn't be lost.

To Reach Eternity (1989)

Sometimes the air is awfully clear here. You can look off to sea and see the soft, warm, raggedy roof of clouds stretching on and on and on. It almost seems as if you can look right on into eternity.

To Reach Eternity (1989)

I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.

History is always written from the viewpoints of the leaders. And increasingly, in our age, war leaders do not get shot at with any serious consistency.

WWII (1975)

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