Oakley Hall Quotes

#1. Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption?

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#2. The only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat.

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#3. If you read novels you sympathize with people who are different kinds of people than you are.

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#4. Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.

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#5. Cussing your daddy when he is crippled so he can't beat your teeth down your throat for it. Well, it is sire and dam in a man like a horse, and no way to get yourself a boy without there is half woman in him.

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#6. Ah,the pure shine of a few moments of heroism, high courage, and derring-do! In its light we genuflect before the Hero, we bask inthe warmth of his Deeds, we tout him, shout him praises, deify him, and, in short, make of him what no mortal could ever be.

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#7. The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

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#8. I should think it might be difficult to possess a wife whom almost every other man in town has known so intimately, but no doubt True Love Conquers All.

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#9. For wine is the color of blood and the texture of tears, and you can drink it to warm your belly and piss it out to get rid of it. And forget the whole damned mess that is too much for any man to face.

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