Ernie Pyle Quotes

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• Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.
• For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
• But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He…
• There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.
• If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.
• I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
• Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.
• Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one…
• All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet…
• [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 be…
• If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
• About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry…
• The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even…
• Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
• 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 in…
• For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every day.…
• The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast…
• War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
• Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit…
• I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone.…

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