Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less. But everybody had it.
– Paolo Bacigalupi
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- The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders. – Paolo Bacigalupi
- Hell, we’re all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you’re a goddamn legend. – Paolo Bacigalupi
- I’m a chess piece. A pawn,’ she said. ‘I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. – Paolo Bacigalupi
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- Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice. – Paolo Bacigalupi
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- Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time. – Zadie Smith
- Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace. – Philippa Gregory
- Words,’ he said, ‘is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. – Road Dahl
- My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen-”numb. – J Kahele
- There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy. – Peter Kreeft
- She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes. – Steven Ramirez
- A maggot is just another life form. – Shinmon Aoki
- In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After ‘Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. – Jan Karon
- What’s this war called again?--œThe Hundred Years War.--œHmmmm, got a bad feeling about this one. – Karl Wiggins
- The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured. – Rick Warren
- Live more, whine less. Smile more, worry less. Love more, hate less. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. – Jack London
- Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war’s made less grand than peace. – Herman Melville
- When people communicate deceit, it’s called politics. When people communicate honesty, it’s called art. – Gerard de Marigny
- War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war. – William Faulkner
- I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. – Siegfried Sassoon
- The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never. – Amy Harmon
- They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong. – Robert Jackson Bennett
- It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable. – Mark Kurlansky
- War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse. – Alan Alda
- Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else. – Jim Butcher