“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”
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“A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.”
[A Revolution of the heart: essays on the Catholic worker, Coy, Patrick G., 1988, Temple University Press, 153]
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