lel, probably that's because Xant used this quote at least 2 times in the past 
I think that was the fourth time I quoted it on this forum. Never has anyone except detective Anders been even close to thinking I wrote it myself.
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"Why do you live the way you do? Why be a mercenary and go around making wars on people?"
"I don't make wars. The world we live in makes wars, led and governed by men who pretend they are creatures of morality and integrity, whereas most of them are self-seeking bastards. They make the wars, for increased profits or increased power. I just fight the wars because it's the way I like to live."
"Buy why for money? Mercenaries fight for money, don't they?"
"Not only the money. The bums do, but when it comes to a crunch the bums who style themselves mercenaries usually don't fight. They run away. Most of the best ones fight for the same reason I do; they enjoy the life, the hard living, the combat."
"But, apart from killing people, you could die yourself. You could get killed in one of these futile wars."
"Yes, and I could live on, like a battery hen, in one of these futile cities. Filling in futile forms, paying futile taxes to enable futile politicians and state managers to fritter it away on electorally useful white elephants. I could earn a futile salary in a futile office and commute futilely on a train, morning and evening, until a futile retirement. I prefer to do it my way, live my way and die my way."
