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James Lee Barrett was an American author, producer and screenwriter.

✵ 19. November 1929 – 15. October 1989
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James Lee Barrett Quotes

“There's nothing much I can tell you about this war. It's like all wars, I suppose. The undertakers are winning it. Oh, the politicians will talk a lot about the "glory" of it, and the old men'll talk about the "need" of it—the soldiers, they just want to go home.”

James Lee Barrett

Shenandoah (1965)

War , Home

“My corn I take serious because it's my corn, and my potatoes and my tomatoes and fences I take note of because they're mine. But this war is not mine and I take no note of it!”

James Lee Barrett

Shenandoah (1965)

War

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