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• ‟ In a war without aim, you tend not to aim. You close your eyes, close your heart. The consequences become hit or miss in the most literal sense.

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• ‟ What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I'm still struggling with it, 40 years later.

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• ‟ I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

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• ‟ I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

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• ‟ With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.

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• ‟ From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

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• ‟ It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

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• ‟ There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

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• ‟ After each of my books about the war has appeared, I thought it might be the last, but I've stopped saying that to myself. There are just too many stories left to tell - in fact, more all the time.

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• ‟ Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.

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• ‟ The word war itself has a kind of glazing abstraction to it that conjures up bombs and bullets and so on, whereas my goal is to try to, so much as I can, capture the heart and the stomach and the back of the throat of readers who can lie in bed at night and participate in a story.

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• ‟ I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

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• ‟ When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story.

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