"We are in the black theater of nonexistence.……" — Herman Wouk
"We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves."
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36 Quotes by Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk has 36 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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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…
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War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad…
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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…
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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…
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My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we…
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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…
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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library.…
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More Ablaze Quotes
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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my…
— Etty Hillesum
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Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that…
— Samuel Chadwick
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An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.
— Anthony Mary Claret
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I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.
— Rumi
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After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward…
— Stephen M. Irwin
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A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul…
— Mary Balogh
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My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of…
— Robert M. Price
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Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the…
— Timothy Winter
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So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because…
— Dan B. Allender
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Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic…
— Pope Pius X
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Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any…
— Renzo Novatore
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God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.
— Smith Wigglesworth
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