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Whatever you hear about the war, remember it was inconceivably bloody — nobody who wasn't there can ever imagine what it was like.

— Maurice Bowra

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More quotes by Maurice Bowra

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

Splendid couple—slept with both of them.

On hearing of the engagement of a well-known literary pair. — Wilson (2009)

Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

Cartwright (2008)

Can't help you. Pity. Slept with him once—should have asked him then.

Though like Our Lord and Socrates he does not publish much, he thinks and says a great deal and has had an enormous influence on our times

About Isaiah Berlin. Letter to Noel Annan. — Lloyd-Jones (1974)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now.

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

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