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Michael Herr Quotes: ...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.
         

...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.


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