“In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.”
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“Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves — all plot and no characters, or made-up characters — Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.”
"A Fun-House Mirror" (1972), pp. 107-108
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
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