In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told
Democracy works. Against us.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
If you fear change, leave it here.
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.