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> [“Everybody talks about freedom, citizens," the big man said gently, seeming to draw upon that very sure source of personal knowledge again, "but they dont really want it. Half of them wants it but the other half dont. What they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/everybody-talks-about-freedom-citizens-the-big-man-said-gently/)

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## More by James Jones

> [I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/i-m-an-american-and-always-will-be-i-happen-to-love-that-big-awkward/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/i-ve-owned-a-thousand-houses-that-i-ve-never-built-she-said-never-had/)

[James Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-jones/)

> [“There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very necessary cleaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/there-is-in-the-army-a-little-known-but-very-important-activity/)

[James Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-jones/)

> [“Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/billions-of-hard-bright-stars-shone-with-relentless-glitter-across/)

[James Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-jones/)

> [“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not today was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/when-compared-to-the-fact-that-he-might-very-well-be-dead-by-this/)

[James Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-jones/)

> [“He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/he-had-studied-and-worked-and-slaved-and-eaten-untold-buckets-of-shit/)

[James Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-jones/)

> [“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not today was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/when-compared-to-the-fact-that-he-might-very-well-be-dead-by-this-2/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/so-a-new-element-darkled-in-their-already-darkling-mood-a-somber-deep/)

[James Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-jones/)

> [“He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not even now.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/he-could-not-blame-the-army-angelo-could-blame-the-army-angelo-hated/)

[James Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-jones/)

> [“I write to reach eternity”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/i-write-to-reach-eternity/)

[James Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-jones/)

> [“A man loves a thing. That don't mean it's gotta love him back.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/a-man-loves-a-thing-that-don-t-mean-it-s-gotta-love-him-back/)

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> [“All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/all-right-he-thought-okay-if-thats-the-way-it-is-a-savagery-of-anger/)

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> [“He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/he-had-not-the-makings-of-that-honest-man-to-whom-success-comes/)

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> [That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/that-was-one-of-the-virtues-of-being-a-pessimist-nothing-was-ever-as/)

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> [“Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of loss and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/sitting-on-the-porch-alone-listening-to-them-fixing-supper-he-felt/)

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