My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. - Anthony Swofford

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We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

Anthony Swofford

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Boredom, Despair, Loneliness

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A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.

Believe, Hands, House, Son, War

It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.

Killers, Mrs, Use, War, Weapons

Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form.

1920S, American, Long, Stories, Writing

My combat action has commenced. . . I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

Action, Combat, Littles, Pants, Pissed

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

Different, Same, War

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Ed Miliband

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

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Peter Ackroyd

And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup. '

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Shirley Manson

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

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John Owen

There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.

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Richard P. Feynman

We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.

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