"I said, “I am a soldier, grown old and tired and confused. I have been fighting since before you were born. And I have yet to see anything gained."

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“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”

“If I had my druthers I’d be twenty-three years old for the rest of my life. Which would last another three thousand years.”

“We are not really a godless bunch. We are just the sort who ignore the gods—probably in the unconscious hope that the gods will not notice us.”

“One’s own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.”

“Exact words were of no consequence. At heart the squabble was as old as humanity itself, fug-headed antiques locking horns with omniscient youth.”

“I have seen it before. Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies.”

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