Bombing of Dresden in World War II

Famous quotes containing the words bombing, world and/or war:

    “Did all of us feel interested in bombing buildings only when the men we slept with were urging us on?”
    —Jane Alpert (b. 1947)

    “To me this decaying landscape has its uses:
    To make me remember, who am always inclined to forget,
    That there is always a changing at the root,
    And a real world in which time really passes.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It’s a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.”
    —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)