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If the common soldiers of each army could just get together by a river bank and talk things over calmly, no war could possibly last as long as a week.

— William March Company K (1933)

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To me it has always seemed that God is so sickened with men, and their unending cruelty to each other, that he covers the places where they have been as quickly as possible.

Company K (1933)

The time comes in the life of each of us when we realize that death awaits us as it awaits others, that we will receive at the end neither preference nor exemption.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.

The Looking-Glass (1943)

I have never ceased to wonder at the thing we call human nature, with its times of beauty and its times of filthiness, or at the level of calm stupidity that lies in between the two.

Company K (1933)

In the sight of my beloved, I am like iron that the smith has heated at his furnace: iron whose surface gives heat. I am a bar that is rigid and will not bend.

The Tallons (1936)

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