# Quote — Harry Turtledove, The Great War: Walk in Hell

> He’d learned to strip and clean and reassemble the machine gun till he could do it with his eyes closed. It was an elegantly simple means of killing large numbers of men in a hurry, assuming that was what you wanted to do.

- Author: [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md)
- Book: [The Great War: Walk in Hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell.md)
- Page: 5
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#The_Great_War:_Walk_in_Hell_(1999)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell/hed-learned-to-strip

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> Anytime a politician said he wouldn’t beat around the bush, you were well advised to keep your hand on your wallet.

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> Whites are so mystified, they put race ahead of class.

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> “What’s obvious,” Morrell observed, “isn’t always true.”

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