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1 " Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly not the incontrovertible glory of the Middle Ages. What I do despise is the contemporary inclination to flop to the knees and crawl back into the past, to shy from what seem like impossible problems in order to bury the head, asshole aloft and twitching, in the Sands of Time. Cowardice, I calls it. Illusion-seeking. Womb-crawling. And treason. Desertion in the face of the enemy.Strong words indeed. But I've always been rather a blunt, tough, plain-spoken type . . . "
― Edward Abbey , Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
2 " ...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house. "
― Gustave Flaubert , Madame Bovary
3 " When desertion is not an option, sabotage is a must. "
― Curious George Brigade
4 " Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. "
5 " Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. "
