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Quotes About Reality

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.
~ Leonard Cohen
I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.
~ Meg Rosoff
I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.
~ Steven Spielberg
The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.
~ Tim Cook
In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.
~ Tim O'Brien
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.
~ Tim O'Brien
In war, the first casualty is truth.
~ Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance.")
~ Mark Knopfler, Golden Heart
Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
~ Philip Caputo, A Rumor Of War
* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.
~ Pindar
The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.
~ George Lynch
It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.
~ Omar El Akkad, American War
We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.
~ Grace Paley
The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.These are called true stories.
~ Moonshine Noire
Finally- no more ruddy show for the folks back home. No pretending it's all beer and skittles and no one ever gets hurt.- Phoenix and Ashes
~ Mercedes Lacky
Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it
~ rassool jibraeel snyman
And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.
~ Tim O'Brien
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.
~ Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.
~ Martin McGuinness
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
~ Anna Quindlen
Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!
~ Vince Vaughn
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
~ Alistair Cooke
Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.
~ Mimi Pond