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> [If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/if-you-go-long-enough-without-a-bath-even-the-fleas-will-leave-you/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

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> [If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/if-you-go-long-enough-without-a-bath-even-the-fleas-will-let-you-alone/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

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## More by Ernie Pyle

> [At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/at-last-we-are-in-it-up-to-our-necks-and-everything-is-changed-even/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/for-a-lifetime-i-had-bathed-with-becoming-regularity-and-thought-the/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/war-makes-strange-giant-creatures-out-of-us-little-routine-men-who/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/marines-have-a-cynical-approach-to-war-they-believe-in-three-things/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/say-what-you-will-nothing-can-make-a-complete-soldier-except-battle/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/i-ve-really-been-sick-with-this-cold-but-i-think-i-might-have-kept/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/there-is-no-sense-in-the-struggle-but-there-is-no-choice-but-to/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/about-every-two-minutes-a-new-wave-of-planes-would-be-over-the-motors/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/for-me-war-has-become-a-flat-black-depression-without-highlights-a/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/but-to-the-fighting-soldier-that-phase-of-the-war-is-behind-it-was/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [“In Europe we felt that our enemies, horrible and deadly as they were, were still people. ... But out here I soon gathered that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/in-europe-we-felt-that-our-enemies-horrible-and-deadly-as-they-were/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/i-ve-been-immersed-in-it-too-long-my-spirit-is-wobbly-and-my-mind-is/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [ \[I\]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/i-nstead-of-the-usual-why-can-t-we-make-movies-more-like-real-life-i/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/i-love-the-infantry-because-they-are-the-underdogs-they-are-the-mud/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

> [Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/thoughts-are-wonderful-things-that-they-can-bring-two-people-so-far/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

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