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| ("All this responsibility at such an early age made her a bitchy flibbertigibbet." | |
| "This was a fairly pretty girl, except that she had legs like an Edwardian grand piano." | |
| "A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army. Billy was no exception. He was powerless to harm the enemy or to help his friends." | |
| "He didn’t look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo." | |
| "“Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker.” The last word was still a novelty in the speech of white people in 1944. It was fresh and astonishing to Billy, who had never fucked anybody—and it did its job. It woke him up and got him off the road." | |
| "The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty." | |
| "A blood gutter, Billy learned, was the shallow groove in the side of the blade of a sword or bayonet." | |
| "One of the inventions was sticking a dentist’s drill into a guy’s" | |
| "“You stake a guy out on an anthill in the desert—see? He’s facing upward, and you put honey all over his balls and pecker, and you cut off his eyelids so he has to stare at the sun till he dies.”" | |
| "“Know why the blade’s triangular?” “No.” “Makes a wound that won’t close up.” “Oh.” “Makes a three-sided hole in a guy. You stick an ordinary knife in a guy—makes a slit. Right? A slit closes right up. | |
| Right?”" | |
| "Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops." | |
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| "Now what was the grand result of all these struggles? Europe expended millions of her treasures, and the blood of two million of her people; and a handful of quarrelsome knights retained possession of Palestine for about one hundred years!") |
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