I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel … - Karl Marlantes

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When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

Karl Marlantes

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

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

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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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