Michael Morpurgo - War Horse (1982)

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There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

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If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.

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That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

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But just as soon as this war's over and finished with, I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.

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My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.

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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

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But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

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I tell you, my friends,' he said one day. 'I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It's the others that are mad, but they don't know it. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it's me they call mad!

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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

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