"that’s why we love conflict, he says. we love to hate. to stop a war, we declare war on it. we must wipe out poverty. we must fight hunger. we campaign and challenge and defeat and destroy. “any call for world peace,” mr. whittier would say, “is a lie. a pretty, pretty lie.” just another excuse to fight. no, we love war."

~   haunted by chuck palahniuk
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29th Aug 2011✧20:325 notes

"when historians look at this, rather that journalists, they will realize it was about more than weapons of mass destruction. it was about a vicious dictator who had to be overthrown because he ignored 14 u.n. resolutions."

~   andrew roberts, british historian and author of the storm of war
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20th Aug 2010✧18:20

"and albertine, who’d been laughing herself silly the whole way, turned to him once and said, reluctantly: good day. and then, once: i’m losing all my teeth from hunger. and the next day: it always hurts, and here too…and she put her hand on her heart…but apart from that she went on laughing and keeping our spirits up and saying: folks, one day the war really will be over and those gray live will all be crushed, and then we’ll learn how to swing with our old legs, although i’m afraid there’ll be two of me by then, i already feel like i’m splitting in two. and she pushed her heart again, she pushed at it more and more."

~   louis paul boon, my little war
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14th Aug 2010✧23:08
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