Quote of The Wars
A WWI story
I’m finishing reading The Wars by Timothy Findley. It’s the story of Robert Ross a nineteen-year-old Canadian officer during the WWI. I want to share a quote from this book with you. Lady Juliet D’Orsey to Timothy Findley cited it during an interview done around 1970. Lady Juliet was talking of her brother Clive to Robert:
“Someone once said to Clive: do you think we will ever be forgiven for what we’ve done? They meant their generation and the war and what the war had done to civilization. Clive said something I’ve never forgotten. He said: I doubt we’ll ever be forgiven. All I hope is — they’ll remember we were human beings.”
J. Moss
October 20, 2008 — 7:18 pm
What page did u get that quote from. It’s pretty deep and i’d like to know!!
J. Moss
Fred
November 7, 2008 — 9:49 pm
Hi Mr. Moss,
In the book “The Wars” by Timothy Findley,
I would warmly recommend you to read this wonderful book by a Canadian writer that done the WWII.
Thanks,
Take care,
Fred
Paige
January 12, 2011 — 1:00 am
i realize this blog post is from a long time ago.
i also found this quote in the book to be very deep and insightfull. having just finished the book in school iam about to wright a paper on it and i would like to thank you for posting this as it haas given me a great quote to use.
sincerly Paige.S