My younger brother’s death in
My younger brother’s death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In ‘Fallen Angels’ I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
– Walter Dean Myers
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- I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings. – Walter
- The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. – Jane Austen
- Absence and death are the same only that in death there is no suffering. – Walter S. Landor
- My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. – Vladimir Putin
- This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam. – Hanoi Hannah
- This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam. – Hanoi Hannah
- I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn’t want to copy anybody’s style. – Jana Novotna
- And I don’t believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes. – Michael Haneke
- Death’s brother, Sleep. – Virgil
- It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. – Walter Hagen