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Famous quotes containing the words northern and/or war:

    “I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor’s son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)