# Quote — Harry Turtledove, Settling Accounts: In at the Death

> “We can beat the enemy,” he said to nobody in particular, “but God help us against our own side.”
>
> “Headquarters being stupid again?” Scullard asked sympathetically.
>
> “They’d have to wise up to get to stupid.” Warming to his theme, Pound added, “They’ve got their headquarters in the their hindquarters.”

- Author: [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md)
- Book: [Settling Accounts: In at the Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-in-at-the-death.md)
- Page: 125
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-in-at-the-death/we-can-beat

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> You have to understand what you’re fighting for. Otherwise, you were an animal—a brave animal, maybe, but an animal all the same.

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> After a case like that, writing about the work O’Doull had done during the war didn’t seem so bad. That, at least, had mattered. This? While he was sewing and splinting and cutting, he looked forward to this with a fierce and simple longing. Now that he had it again, he discovered the danger of getting exactly what you thought you wanted. It could prove as unfortunate in real life as in fairy tales.

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