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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

William Faulkner
Funny, War, Men
William Faulkner (2011). “A Fable”, p.26, Vintage

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

William Faulkner
War, Self, Enemy

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

William Faulkner
Peace, War, Long
William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

William Faulkner
War, Purpose, Fever
William Faulkner (2011). “A Fable”, p.80, Vintage

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