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  1. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    In marching, in mobs, in football games, and in war, outlines become vague; real things become unreal and a fog creeps over the mind. Tension and excitement, weariness, movement--all merge in one great gray dream, so that when it is over, it is hard to remember how it was when you killed men or ordered them to be killed. Then other people who were not there tell you what it was like and you say vaguely, "yes, I guess that's how it was.
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  2. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it.
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  3. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it.
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  4. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    Defeat is a momentary thing. A defeat doesn't last. We were defeated and now we attack. Defeat means nothing. Can't you understand that? Do you know what they are whispering behind doors?
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  5. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.
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  6. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    The flies have conquered the flypaper.
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  7. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.
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  8. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
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  9. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.
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  10. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    The fool supply was controlled...
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  11. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business.They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies.
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  12. John Steinbeck _ The Moon Is Down

    And the girl,' Lanser continued, 'the girl, Lieutenant, you may rape her, or protect her, or marry her--that is of no importance so long as you shoot her when it is ordered.
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