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Katherine Paterson Quotes about War

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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

Katherine Paterson
War, Two, Enemy

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

Katherine Paterson
War, Loss, Reality
Katherine Paterson (2012). “Read for Your Life #21”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

Katherine Paterson
Running, War, Towns
Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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