'You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.'
-Auberon Waugh(1939-2001)
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Says the man who tried to clear a machine gun with near fatal results while addressing the gun from the front with the barrel pointing straight at himself.
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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Says the man who tried to clear a machine gun with near fatal results while addressing the gun from the front with the barrel pointing straight at himself.
One of my favourite journalists of all time. We won't see his like again.
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