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Erich Maria Remarque
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This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.
— Epigraph
Erich Maria Remarque
German-born novelist (1898–1970)
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He turned trench horror into the template for every war novel that followed. All Quiet on the Western Front made him both a bestseller and a target — the Nazis burned his books and revoked his citizenship for telling the truth about 1914.
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Erich Paul Remark was born in Germany on 22 June 1898 and served in the Imperial German Army during World War I. A decade later he published All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel drawn directly from that experience, and it became an international bestseller that invented a new genre: veterans writing plainly about combat. The book was adapted to film multiple times, but its anti-war themes brought condemnation from Joseph Goebbels, who called Remarque unpatriotic. He used his literary fame to escape, first to Switzerland as a refugee, then to the United States, where he became a naturalized…
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Erich Maria Remarque
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It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows.
— Ch. 1 (p. 10)
Erich Maria Remarque
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We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers — we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
— Ch. 4 (p. 56)
Erich Maria Remarque
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We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life.
— Ch. 5 (p.88)
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It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit.
— Ch. 6 (p. 101)
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