Person
officer in the Coldstream Guards and died of wounds outside Bayonne, France
“The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.”
“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.”
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.”
“The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable.”
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
