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  • The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

    Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books
  • Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

  • The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

    Moving   Air   Sky  
    Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books
  • Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

    World   Duty  
    "Dispatches from the front". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2003.
  • Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

  • A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

    Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books
  • We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.

    Jobs   Mean   Thinking  
  • Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived

    Running   War   Believe  
  • Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

    War   World   Firsts  
  • Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

    Murder   Killing  
    Pat Barker (2013). “The Ghost Road”, p.30, Penguin
  • I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

  • The result was I went nowhere.

    Results  
    Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.38, Penguin
  • The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.

    Jobs   Fighting   Mind  
    Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.27, Penguin
  • Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

    Done   Half   World  
    Pat Barker (2013). “The Ghost Road”, p.60, Penguin
  • Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

    "Double vision". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.
  • It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

    Pain   Empathy   Goes On  
  • You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

    Thinking   Want   Faces  
    Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.226, Penguin
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