# Quote — Keith Laumer, A Plague of Demons

> “All right. Let’s begin with the world situation.”
>
> “I’d prefer a more cheerful subject—like cancer.”

- Author: [Keith Laumer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer.md)
- Book: [A Plague of Demons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/a-plague-of-demons.md)
- Page: 10
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Keith_Laumer#A_Plague_of_Demons_(1965)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/a-plague-of-demons/all-right-lets

## More from this book

> Out of the synthesis of opposites, a cancerous growth called Beauty came into being; obscene antisurvival concepts named Loyalty, Courage, Justice were born into the universe.
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> Wherever the elemental Purities encountered this monstrous hybrid, a battle of extermination was joined. Good could compromise with Evil, but neither could meet with the half-breed, Art.

p. 169 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/a-plague-of-demons/out-of-the.md)

> Yours is not to reason why, eh? I guess you’re lucky at that. It’s not dying that hurts—it’s living.

p. 134 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/a-plague-of-demons/yours-is-not.md)

> “Why do you fight this war?”
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> The alien mind howled out its war slogan—as incomprehensible as an astrologer’s jargon.

p. 164 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/a-plague-of-demons/why-do-you.md)