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The war is utter damn nonsense—a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking [sic] malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos (1896–1970), U.S. novelist, poet, playwright, painter. letter, Aug. 23, 1917, to his friend Rumsey Marvin. The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos, ed. Townsend Ludington (1973).

Written while at the western front near Verdun during the First World War.

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