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“War stories aren't really anything more than stories about people anyway.”

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Michael Herr livre Dispatches

Dispatches (1977)

“There was such a dense concentration of energy there [Vietnam], American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.”

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Michael Herr livre Dispatches

Dispatches (1977)

“I think that Vietnam is what we had instead of happy childhoods.”

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Michael Herr livre Dispatches

Dispatches (1977)

“Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there.”

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Michael Herr livre Dispatches

Dispatches (1977)