James K. Morrow - This is the Way the World Ends (1986)

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To George, Overwhite still seemed like a windbag, but he was obviously a resourceful and intelligent one, a windbag woven of the finest material.

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Maybe I'll end up on the fun side of her pants some day.

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Now we're getting somewhere, George told himself, although he sensed that this situation would not endure.

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Gravestones, he knew, were educational media, teaching that life has limits: don't set your sights too high.

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For moral reasons, the young Reverend Peter Sparrow declined to join the Saturday night gatherings of the Erebus Poker Club. Gambling, he knew, was Satan's third favorite pastime, after sex and ecumenicalism.

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Curse God, and die. To George it seemed like remarkably sage and relevant advice.

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Be sure to convict that chucklehead. He thinks a country's Christianity is measured by the size of its thermonuclear arsenal.

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You want a motive, William? I've got a motive. Vengeance may not be a pretty word, but it's what's expected of us.
Right! said Sverre. We owe it to all those millions of dead people to make more millions of dead people. Be careful how you rewrite strategic doctrine, General, or you'll come out of this war without a single medal.

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The fission bomb was a costly mistress. Consider, your Honors. In 1979 this planet celebrated the International Year of the Child. Of the one hundred and twenty-two million children born that year, one of every ten was dead by 1982, and most died for lack of inexpensive food and vaccines. Yet in 1982 the world spent one trillion dollars on weapons. One trillion dollars!

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It must have been hard converting your elders in the Pentagon to this view.
Ever try stuffing a melted marshmallow up a wildcat's ass? It can be done, but you have to like your job.

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