Memorable Quotes from Slim Summerville
7 quotesDesperation for Food in Hard Times
Paul
You see, we haven't eaten since breakfast, we thought maybe you could tell us what we ought to do about it.
Tjaden
Eat without further delay. It's a bad town to bring an appetite to, soldier. We've been here since yesterday morning and we've been living on a bale of hay and razor blades.
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Loss of sustenance in harsh conditions
Tjaden
There used to be some food in the sawdust. Now it's all sawdust. No joke either.
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On the Nature of Replacements in War
Tjaden
Replacements are all like that. Not even old enough to carry a pack. All they know how to do is die.
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Anticipating the Reality of War
Tjaden
It's gonna be a real war again.
[''to Paul on his return'']
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The Nature of Conflict Between Nations
Tjaden
Well, how do they start a war?
Soldier #1
Well, one country offends another.
Tjaden
How could one country offend another? You mean there's a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?
Soldier #1
Well, stupid. One people offends another.
Tjaden
Oh, that's it. I shouldn't be here at all. I don't feel offended.
Katczinsky
It don't apply to tramps like you.
Tjaden
Good. Then I can be going home right away...The Kaiser and me...Me and the Kaiser felt just alike about this war. We didn't neither of us want any war, so I'm going home. He's there already.
Soldier #1
Somebody must have wanted it. Maybe it was the English. No, I don't want to shoot any Englishman. I never saw one til I came up here. And I suppose most of them never saw a German til they came up here. No, I'm sure they weren't asked about it.
Soldier #2
Well, it must be doing somebody some good.
Tjaden
Not me and the Kaiser.
Soldier #1
I think maybe the Kaiser wanted a war.
Tjaden
You leave us out of this.
Katczinsky
I don't see that. The Kaiser's got everything he needs.
Soldier #1
Well, he never had a war before. Every full-grown Emperor needs one war to make him famous. Why, that's history.
Paul
Yeah, Generals too. They need war.
Soldier #3
And manufacturers. They get rich.
Soldier #1
Nobody wants it in particular. And then all at once, here it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we are fighting.
Katczinsky
I'll tell ya how it should all be done. Whenever there's a big war comin on, you should rope off a big field.
Soldier #1
And sell tickets.
Katczinsky
Yeah, and, and, on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put them in the center dressed in their underpants and let em fight it out with clubs. The best country wins.
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The Determination of the James Brothers
Jailer
I don't know if you gents know it or not, but well, both these James boys does things.
McCoy
What are you driving at?
Jailer
I've known Frank James a long time, and when he says he aims to do somethin', he's liable to come purdy near doin it.
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The Last Soldier's Fate
Tjaden
If he were out, the war would be over. You remember what he always said: They're savin him for the last.
[''of Katczinsky'']
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