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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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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
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When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauz…
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Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America! If…
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Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We…
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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…
— Herman Wouk
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Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of…
— Martina Hingis
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Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it…
— Wilfred Burchett
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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
— Walter Lippmann
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Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.
— Margaret Atwood
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We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a…
— Anneli Rufus
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It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a…
— Simon Travaglia
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