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I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing a German WWI helmet painted silver and black)
...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.
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in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.
This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th
But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.
For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.
...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.
They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.
The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.
Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87
Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.
The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult to attain later.
Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy, " I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life.
And be very careful at the front, Paul.”Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!
A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.
And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.
It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.
Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been, And stillness from the pools of Paradise.