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

> “Life is hard.” Rodriguez shrugged. “And after life is done, then you die.” He shrugged again. “What can anyone do?”
>
> It was a good question. It was, when Pinkard thought about it, a very good question. If there were any better questions out there, he had no idea what they might be. “You do the best you can, is all,” he answered slowly, and then looked around at the hole in the ground in the middle of nowhere he was currently inhabiting. “If this here is the best I can do, I been doin’ somethin’ wrong up till now.”

- 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: 310
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell/life-is-hard

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

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