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Bosnia
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In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly thought that the Bosnian cause was worth fighting for and worth defending, but I could not take myself seriously enough to imagine that my own demise would have forwarded the cause. (I also discovered that a famous jaunty Churchillism had its limits: the old war-lover wrote in one of his more youthful
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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And now insane men adrift in a world without order formed a line at the door. They rendered unto her every evil act brought into this world by God. They fell upon her with brutality that none of them at any other time would have thought possible. There was once no scenario that would lead them to behave this way. At any other time in their life there were no words or arguments that could convince them to treat a woman with such wanton disregard. No one now asked, “What brought me to this?”
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― Magenta
― Magenta
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