“Okay," I said slowly, "but what the hell would you mate a horse with to get a unicorn, because I don't see horses and narwhales doing the dirty boogie.”
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY “On the Blue Water,” Esquire, April 1936”
“Nerves were on hair triggers, and if my virgin aunt had stepped out from behind those crates with a puppy in one hand and a baby in the other my guys would have capped her.”
“It's refreshing to be insane. Just as it's liberating to be aware of it.”
“He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster. —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE”
“It doesn't exactly fill me with pride."
"For what, being a white man?"
"For being a carbon based life-form.”
“The value of choice is not in the size of the action but in its effect”
“Apologizing is great, but ‘sorry’ isn’t a magic word.”
“Världen är väldig och förunderlig,..., men den är inte väldigare eller mer förunderlig än vårt medvetande. (s. 65)”
“Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,
When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,
Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom”
“Nations tend to see the other side's war atrocities as systemic and indicative of their culture and their own atrocities as justified or the acts of stressed combatants. In my travels, I sense a smoldering resentment towards WWII Japanese behavior among some Americans. Ironically, these feelings are strongest among the younger American generation that did not fight in WWII. In my experience, the Pacific vets on both sides have made their peace. And in terms of judgments, I will leave it to those who were there. As Ray Gallagher, who flew on both atomic missions against Hiroshima and Nagasaki argues, "When you're not at war you're a good second guesser. You had to live those years and walk that mile.”
“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”
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