To Hell With Reality! I

The Best Way To Make A Sort Of Peace, A Fragile Armistice To Be Sure, But Precious All The Same, With Men, Officers Or Not, Is To Let Them Bask And Wallow In Childish Self-glorification. There’s No Such Thing As Intelligent Vanity. It’s An Instinct. And You’ll Never Find A Man Who Is Not First And Formenost Vain. The Role Of Admiring Doormat Is About The Only One That One Man Is Glad To Tolerate In Another. With These Soldiers I Had No Need To Tax My Imagination.

The Biggest Defeat In Every Department Of Life Is To Forget, Especially The Things That Have Done You In, And To Die Without Realizing How Far People Can Go In The Way Of Crumminess. When The Grave Lies Open Before Us, Let's Not Try To Be Witty, But Record The Worst Of Human Viciousness We've Seen Without Changing One Word. When That's Done, We Can Curl Up Our Toes And Sink Into The Pit. That's Work Enough For A Lifetime.

There Are Certain Advantages In Being Cursed By All And Sundry ... Especially, It Dispenses You With Having To Be Nice To Anybody ... There's Nothing More Emollient, Stultifying, Emasculating Than Wanting To Be Liked ... "not Nice!" ... That Does It, You're Free!.

The Rich Don't Have To Kill To Eat. They Employ People, As They Call It. The Rich Don't Do Evil Themselves. They Pay. People Do All They Can To Please Them, And Everybody's Happy.

Truth Is A Pain Which Will Not Stop. And The Truth Of This World Is To Die. You Must Choose: Either Dying Or Lying. Personally, I Have Never Been Able To Kill Myself