“Military men! Damn it, they always thought in terms of hardware, black or white, our side or the other side. It was damned hard to get them to see gray at all, and getting them to tell dark gray from medium gray was impossible!”
Source: The Fresco (2000), Chapter 12, p. 125
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American fiction writer 1929–2016Related quotes

“There’s so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.”
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“The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.”
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“Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.”
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