Michael Shaara Quotes

• There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

  Michael Shaara

  Earth, Battlefields

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.434, Ballantine Books

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• I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg.

  Michael Shaara

  Wall, Distance, Believe

  "Fictional character: Lieutenant General James Longstreet". "Gettysburg", www.imdb.com. October 8, 1993.

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• A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

  Michael Shaara

  War, Men, Realist

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.435, Ballantine Books

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• If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

  Michael Shaara

  Men, America, Slave

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.435, Ballantine Books

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• Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

  Michael Shaara

  Men, Dying, Enjoy

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.421, Ballantine Books

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• Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.

  Michael Shaara

  Dream, Trying, Sound

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.437, Ballantine Books

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• Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

  Michael Shaara

  Religious, Men, Mad

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.509, Ballantine Books

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• The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

  Michael Shaara

  Heart, Disease, Force

  Michael Shaara (2013). “The Killer Angels”, p.82, Birlinn

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• Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was simply to apologize in general from time to time and let people know he meant well and then to shove off and hope for the best. He apologized and departed, curls ajiggle.

  Michael Shaara

  War, People, Departed

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.458, Ballantine Books

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• Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up there but I'm no stranger here. Have always felt at home everywhere, even in Virginia, where they hate me. Everywhere you go there's nothing but the same rock and dirt and houses and people and deer and birds. They give it all names, but I'm at home everywhere. Odd thing: unpatriotic. I was at home in England. I would be at home in the desert. In Afghanistan or far Typee. All mine, it all belongs to me. My world.

  Michael Shaara

  Hate, Home, Rocks

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.501, Ballantine Books

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• It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.

  Michael Shaara

  Night, July, Next Day

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.655, Ballantine Books

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