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Michael Shaara
“Chamberlain closed his eyes and saw it again. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. No book or music would have that beauty. He did not understand it: a mile of men flowing slowly, steadily, inevitably up the long green ground, dying all the while, coming to kill you, and the shell bursts appearing above them like instant white flowers, and the flags all tipping and fluttering, and dimly you could hear the music and the drums, and then you could hear the officers screaming, and yet even above your own fear came the sensation of unspeakable beauty. He shook his head, opened his eyes. Professor's mind. But he thought of Aristotle: pity and terror. So this is tragedy. Yes. He nodded. In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.”
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Jeff Shaara
“Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.”
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Michael Shaara
“If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.”
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara
“The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.”
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War

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“Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.”
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

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