Pat Barker Quotes

• Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

  Pat Barker

  Shapes, Definitions, Persons

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

  Pat Barker

  Pain, Empathy, Goes On

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Want, Faces

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

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• Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

  Pat Barker

  World, Duty

  "Dispatches from the front". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2003.

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

  Pat Barker

  Memories, Past, Palimpsest

  Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books

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• 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.

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  Butterfly, Cutting, Soul

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• 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.

  Pat Barker

  Hate, Character, Fiction

  "Double vision". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.

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

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  Allegiance, Young, Deserve

  Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books

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

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  Guerra, Mundo, Primeros

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• Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

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  Done, Half, World

  Pat Barker (2013). “The Ghost Road”, p.60, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Trabajo, Medio, Pensamiento

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• 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

  Pat Barker

  Christian, Thinking, Awkward

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• 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.

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  Moving, Air, Sky

  Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books

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• 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

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  Running, War, Believe

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• Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

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  Murder, Killing

  Pat Barker (2013). “The Ghost Road”, p.30, Penguin

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• En mi opinión, cuando te pones el uniforme, firmas un contrato. Y uno no se echa atrás en un contrato simplemente porque haya cambiado de opinión. Puedes seguir defendiendo tus principios, puedes seguir argumentando en contra de aquellos por los que te obligan a luchar, pero al final haces tu trabajo.

  Pat Barker

  Jobs, Fighting, Mind

  Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.27, Penguin

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• The result was I went nowhere.

  Pat Barker

  Resultados

  Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.38, Penguin

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