Shoot The Survivors

Daria Petrilli

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

— Hemingway

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… It is not your fault, it is not my fault, that I write. And I never would come before you in the position of a complainant for doing something that I must do… The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t…