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Anytime a politician said he wouldn’t beat around the bush, you were well advised to keep your hand on your wallet.

— Harry Turtledove Southern Victory (1997)

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I’ll tell you, though, this whole business of war would be a hell of a lot more fun if you didn’t get shot.

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The Confederate States had been founded on the principle that change was a bad idea.

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The only people who love a war are those who have never fought in one.

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Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

A man who couldn’t see truth when it tried to shoot him wouldn’t live long, and didn’t deserve to.

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