Herman Wouk Quotes

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• Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
• Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong…
• This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
• Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
• I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
• Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us…
• War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.
• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you…
• Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and…
• My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
• The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative,…
• The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be…
• I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
• Write a page a day. It will add up.
• The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
• Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
• The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.
• A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.
• ... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.
• Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

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