killing fish

If you want to know why you didn’t make a boat. I’ll tell you. You’re just out there hammering the water. You’re killing fish, not rowing.

Jim Dietz in David Halberstam’s  The Amateurs (1996)

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war

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)