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War is too strange to be processed alone, (Phil Klay Quotes)
I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me. (Phil Klay Quotes)
War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was (Phil Klay Quotes)
The Iraq I returned from was, in my mind, a fairly simple place. By which I mean it had little relationship to reality. It’s only with time and the help of smart, empathetic friends willing to pull through many serious conversations that I’ve been able to learn more about what I witnessed. (Phil Klay Quotes)
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance. (Phil Klay Quotes)
If you’re going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war. (Phil Klay Quotes)
Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences. (Phil Klay Quotes)
When I was in Marine training I memorised ‘The Waste Land,’ which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function. (Phil Klay Quotes)
I doubt there’s anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism. (Phil Klay Quotes)
A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments. (Phil Klay Quotes)
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war. (Phil Klay Quotes)
If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you’re not actually admitting the full experience. (Phil Klay Quotes)
There’s a tradition of public service in my family. I’m one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps. (Phil Klay Quotes)
I didn’t want to write a ‘this is how it is’ Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things. (Phil Klay Quotes)
I think that just because you’ve been through an experience doesn’t make you the ultimate arbiter of what it means. We figure things out; we work things out through the help of other people who can engage with us but also be intelligently critical. (Phil Klay Quotes)
And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it’s good. (Phil Klay Quotes)
I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan. (Phil Klay Quotes)
In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it. (Phil Klay Quotes)
I don’t believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front. (Phil Klay Quotes)
Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O’Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative. (Phil Klay Quotes)
A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but ‘Anna Karenina’ is still a pretty good book. (Phil Klay Quotes)
I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors. (Phil Klay Quotes)
I have two friends named Matt. They’re both scouts in the cavalry. They both served in the same section of Iraq. They both worked with the same Iraqi translator. And yet, if you talk to them, their stories couldn’t be more different, because one was there in 2006. One was there in 2008. (Phil Klay Quotes)
Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military (Phil Klay Quotes)
It’s not so much the question that offends me; it’s that the people asking it don’t seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question (Phil Klay Quotes)
There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can’t quite see. Either way, it’s the same story (Phil Klay Quotes)
You’re not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you’re supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well. (Phil Klay Quotes)
In the Marine Corps, you meet this really broad segment of the country; you’re working with people from all kinds of backgrounds. And it exposes you to the American military, particularly the American military at war. (Phil Klay Quotes)
I’m not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans. (Phil Klay Quotes)
Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. (Phil Klay Quotes)
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