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Karl Marlantes quotes: Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.

Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.

Karl Marlantes quotes: Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Karl Marlantes quotes: The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.

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

Karl Marlantes quotes: We all have shit on our shoes. We've just got to realize it so we don't track it into the house.

We all have shit on our shoes. We've just got to realize it so we don't track it into the house.

Karl Marlantes quotes: The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

Karl Marlantes quotes: Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Karl Marlantes quotes: Over time, continual bad news will discourage any civilian population, and Americans had the lowest tolerance on the planet for bad news.

Over time, continual bad news will discourage any civilian population, and Americans had the lowest tolerance on the planet for bad news.

Karl Marlantes quotes: 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.

Karl Marlantes quotes: Dying this way was a better way to die because living this way was a better way to live. The

Dying this way was a better way to die because living this way was a better way to live. The

Karl Marlantes quotes: Them. Too much activity, right where the colonel

Them. Too much activity, right where the colonel

Karl Marlantes quotes: Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans were responsible for it all.

Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans were responsible for it all.

Karl Marlantes quotes: When you are confronted with a seemingly painless moral choice, the odds are that you haven't looked deeply enough.

When you are confronted with a seemingly painless moral choice, the odds are that you haven't looked deeply enough.

Karl Marlantes quotes: It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about

It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about

Karl Marlantes quotes: 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 quotes: '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 quotes: Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

Karl Marlantes quotes: The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits.

The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits.

Karl Marlantes quotes: his heart would out-pace his feet and burst. His heart, his whole body, was overflowing with an emotion that he could only describe as love. He

his heart would out-pace his feet and burst. His heart, his whole body, was overflowing with an emotion that he could only describe as love. He

Karl Marlantes quotes: I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Karl Marlantes quotes: It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange ... and it won't bother humans.

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange ... and it won't bother humans.