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1  Those war movies always do that to me.
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2  I don't think I could stand it if I had to go to war.
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3  The husband goes to war, and the wife has this brother that's a drunkard.
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4  If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it.
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5  could hate the Army and war and all so much and still like a phony like that.
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6  , though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer.
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7  I swear if there's ever another war, they better just take me out and stick me in front of a firing squad.
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8  It was about this English guy, Alec something, that was in the war and loses his memory in the hospital and all.
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9  He made Allie go get his baseball mitt and then he asked him who was the best war poet, Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson.
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10  Later, when he went overseas and was in the war and all, he didn't get wounded or anything and he didn't have to shoot anybody.
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11  I don't know his name, but he always plays the part of a guy in a war movie that gets yellow before it's time to go over the top.
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12  I remember Allie once asked him wasn't it sort of good that he was in the war because he was a writer and it gave him a lot to write about and all.
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13  After the movie was over, I started walking down to the Wicker Bar, where I was supposed to meet old Carl Luce, and while I walked I sort of thought about war and all.
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14  I read a lot of classical books, like The Return of the Native and all, and I like them, and I read a lot of war books and mysteries and all, but they don't knock me out too much.
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15  He's a very bitter guy, the brother, because he was a doctor in the war and now he can't operate any more because his nerves are shot, so he boozes all the time, but he's pretty witty and all.
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16  Then you'd pass by this long, long Indian war canoe, about as long as three goddam Cadillacs in a row, with about twenty Indians in it, some of them paddling, some of them just standing around looking tough, and they all had war paint all over their faces.
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