Anthony Swofford Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”
-- Anthony Swofford

Source : Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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“If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.”
-- Anthony Swofford

Source : Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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“Every war is different. Every war is the same.”
-- Anthony Swofford

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“My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.”
-- Anthony Swofford

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“It occured to me that we will never be young again.”
-- Anthony Swofford

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“It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.”
-- Anthony Swofford

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“A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.”
-- Anthony Swofford

Source : Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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“Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form.”
-- Anthony Swofford

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“I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.”
-- Anthony Swofford

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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“The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

“You are the architect of your own loneliness.”

Source : Henry Thomas Hamblin (2009). “The Power of Thought”, p.4, The Floating Press

“It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.”

Source : "Profile: Adrien Brody" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.

“There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.”

“What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?”

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”

“An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?”

“When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.”

“Never despair. Never surrender.”

“I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.”