That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 2

I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.