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War & Violenceexpand_more“I suppose there have been a good many men killed in this room.”
Struggling to find my budget hotel, my stress rose as the sun faded.
I was getting a little fogged, but I recognized irony when I heard it.
These days murder is as common as love scenes were in the 1930s.
Our remarks must be tempered by a sense of cooperation.
He was nervous and ill at ease, but my bearing seemed to reassure him.
The underworld reached out for your hand and found payment.
If there was any magic in his sad life, it happened on that day.
“I can’t die, I don’t want to die, I love life,” Prince Andrei thought.
You and me is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better.
He studies their mannerisms, looking for clues to the psycho spirit.
They caught those few of us left unclaimed by the one emotion, or the other.
In exchange for our labor, we would each be given a new set of clothes.
I don’t think I was very frightened. I was simply hungry for home.
We looked at each other beneath a London sky, on a Zeppelin night.
He thinks with joy and conviction that the Japanese are his enemy.
The caved-in storefront looked as if a missile had slammed into it.
“Rev. MacLean’s been stabbed in Oban,” his wife said, her voice thin.
He said, every night you close the store, I watch you walk to your car.
I instantly realised what losing would mean. My whole life was at stake.
I’d chosen three hundred boys out of the best Israel had to offer.
so this god is only wood and holes, a blank, like the moon’s unlit side.
Darla has come to the monument to fight against her mind.
He probably should have arrested or at least reported me to someone.
After days of torture in secret prisons, they were about to let him go.
El Presidente was no longer in a mood to see the American press.
The Kid came back from the post trader’s store with a six-shooter.
My mother’s city and I were both named after an assassinated king.
The interrogator was both man and deity, prophet and god.
The sense of power that flights of temper evoke will betray you.
