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For a while, when I was eleven or so, I used to drop the empty cardboard toilet rolls into the john. They would take a while to disappear, five or six flushes usually, but I was in no hurry.
“I feel the most sorry for the ones who starved to death. I'll never get over that feeling. People today say 'I'm starving' when they are hungry - but they don't understand what that really means.”
― Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan
― Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan
“And the thing is, when you lose someone, you realize you'll eventually lose everyone.”
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“One bloody battle followed another. Sometimes the North won, sometimes the South, but always the soldiers lost, thousands of them dying or maimed.”
― Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero
― Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero
“I’m aware that many things were not better in the 1940s. Underarm deodorants and air-conditioning were woefully inadequate, for instance, so everybody stank like crazy, especially in the summer, and also we had Hitler.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“I'm an American,' Kabuo cut in. 'Just like anybody. Am I calling you a Nazi, you big Nazi bastard? I killed men who looked just like you - pig-fed German bastards. I've got their blood on my soul, Carl, and it doesn't wash off very easily. So don't you talk to me about Japs, you big Nazi son of a bitch.”
― Snow Falling on Cedars
― Snow Falling on Cedars
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