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“Instead of a necessary processing, a readjustment, a redefinition as a post-imperial island that ought to have learned from the terrors of its past conflicts to forge closer relationships with Europe, the jingoistic memory of the war gives a boost to a national selfhood that is gaseous and unsustainable, forever on the edge of - and perhaps now finally - collapsing into hubris.”
― Luke Turner, Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

“If war is the most extreme experience of the human condition, to make a simplistic moral judgement that all war is wrong and therefore all war is wrong and therefore all compulsion to study it similarly tarnished, is a wish to remain in dangerous ignorance.”
― Luke Turner, Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

“The visible that emerged was a tapestry of people working to make their lives as good as possible, struggling with all the emotional concurrents and enjoying all the satisfactions that came with it”
― Robert Knapp, Invisible Romans

“Fred destroyed Donald too, but not by snuffing him out like Freddy; instead, he short-circuited Donald's ability to develop and experience the entire spectrum of human emotion. By limiting Donald's access to his own feelings and rendering many of them unacceptable, Fred perverted his son's perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it. His capacity to be his own person, rather than an extension of his father's ambitions, became severely limited.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man