The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission. - Karl Marlantes

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The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Karl Marlantes

The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.

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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War. ' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

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This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

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Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

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Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

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Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.

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