Joe Haldeman - The Forever War (1974)

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A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

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Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there... the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

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I never found anyone else and I don't want anyone else. I don't care whether you're ninety years old or thirty. If I can't be your lover, I'll be your nurse.

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I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely cowardice had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.

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She hadn't been such a bad girl before the power went to her head.

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It was making me a little queasy. Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

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Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

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