“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or The School, or The Church, but from that fourth and other great moulder of social conscience, The… — James Jones Copy Share Image
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“I've owned a thousand houses that I've never built," she said. "Never had the money to build. Couldn't have used if I had had… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very necessary cleaning… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.” — James Jones Copy Share Image
“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not today was… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.” — James Jones Copy Share Image
“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not today was… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“So a new element darkled in their already darkling mood: a somber, deep-rooted bitterness which would grow and grow until it would make of… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not even now.… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them… — James Jones Copy Share Image
