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References are made to the guerrillas of the American Revolution and the Mexican War because they influenced the thinking of Americans during the Civil War era. Likewise, guerrilla resistance against Napoleon in Spain anticipated America’s
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“The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
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“Once when I felt a little bruised by censorship I sent through Herodotus’s account of the battle of Salamis fought between the Greeks and Persians in 480 B.C., and since there were place names involved, albeit classical ones, the Navy censors killed the whole story.”
― Once There Was a War
― Once There Was a War
“Something she’d gotten from Burton and the Corps, that you didn’t do things in the clothes you sat around in. You got yourself squared away, then your intent did too.”
― The Peripheral
― The Peripheral
“The senses give both us and the animals access to the natural world, but we humans have superimposed a second world by internalizing a poem, thereby making the two worlds seem equally inescapable. Outside of the natural sciences, reason works within the second world, following paths that the imagination has cleared. But inside those sciences, nature itself shows the way,”
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