“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”
John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.”
Source: Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 42
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