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Cold Quote by Ernie Pyle

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“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 spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.”

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For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

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I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

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Of course Messi could handle a cold Tuesday night in Stoke. He'd be drinking tea and relaxing beforehand. Me? I'd probably be the same.

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You start playing when it's cold and you want to be playing when it's cold again.

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It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him…

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I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even…

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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

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