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Herman Wouk has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases…
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This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
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Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
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I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
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Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who…
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War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't…
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The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in…
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Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later…
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My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
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The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we…
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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found…
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love…
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote…
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The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I…
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Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
— E T A Hoffmann
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i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i…
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
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I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can…
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He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept…
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