Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.