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Karl Marlantes

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

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These are some quotes by American author Karl Marlantes Author, who was born on December 24, 1944.

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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. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

Karl Marlantes

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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

Karl Marlantes

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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

Karl Marlantes

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