“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”

“We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6”

“Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3”

“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5”

“There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.”

“The Cowboy WayBeing a Cowboy is doing the right thing; commonwisdom born of simple virtues and strong ideals.Above all, it is a strict adherence to honestyeven when it is not in our best interests.It is having an inherent sense of justice in aworld where the cards are often stacked against us.We try to hold enough common sense to recognizethe value of a lost cause and the cost of lost values.Generally speaking, we are quietly reserved in allthings except freedom, fresh air and Saturday night.We have a keen eye for agood horse, a good gun,and a good Cowgirl.Constant to friends, we are more so whenfriends need us, less so when they don't.Familiar with hard work we also knowhard knocks and hard roads.Often given to tearswhen lesser individuals would display indifference;we are as well given to joy in a fewplaces others would only find disdain.We enjoy plain living, not becausewe relish doing without, but because we havediscovered the treasures within.And, finally, we have that elusive emotion calledcourage which is, at worst, a badly directed sense ofconceit and, at best, it is the stuffof which dreams are made. . . .”