| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 63045 |
| QUOTATION: | What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. Its 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922), U.S. novelist. City Limits (London, March 11, 1983). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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