Albert Kropp:
[speaking of school] They never taught us really useful like how to light a cigarette in the wind, or make a fire out of wet wood, or bayonet a man in the belly instead of the ribs where it gets jammed.
--William Bakewell (as Albert) in All Quiet on the Western Front
--William Bakewell (as Albert) in All Quiet on the Western Front
Albert Kropp:
I think it's more a kind of fever. Nobody wants it in particular, and then all at once, there it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we are fighting.
--William Bakewell (as Albert) in All Quiet on the Western Front
--William Bakewell (as Albert) in All Quiet on the Western Front