Civilian casualties?” I asked. “There always are.
For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview in , Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)
I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the fo...
Well, for instance, why does everything always have to be written from the point of view of a human being? Why not write from the point of view of a cat? Or a tree?
hand. I was charged with organizing the messages: descriptions of the creatures, descriptions of their space vessels, descriptions of their conveyances, of their weapons, of their movements. Positions of our soldiers, of our allies’ soldiers. Troop...
Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
In war, the first casualty is truth.
I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
Whatever. There is a natural order to things, a hierarchy. And no less so in man. For man may be the master of nature, but he is also part of it. Every living thing, from the greatest of all men to the lowliest earthworm has its place. It is very imp...
The first casualty of war is casual wear.
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.
