„And then there were the sick to be transported back to Cairo (where already the holy war might have spread like the bubonic and smiling beards above gelder’s knives be waiting at the gates), and how in the name of filthy castrating Allah did you march men back through the Sinai who couldn’t even sit a mule? He reviewed the sweating patients in gloom, all distorted with bubos…“

— Anthony Burgess

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„And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice.“
— Bob Dylan
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— Jodi Picoult