Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Elizabeth Bowen
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken. -
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Accurst be he that first invented war.
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- Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
- Education is not so important as people think.
- Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.