Quotes by Ernie Pyle - Page 1

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
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Fire
Literature
London
Night
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Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.
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Firsts
Literature
Matter
Matters
Swinging
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Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.
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War
Country
Ugly
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If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.
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Funny
Fleas
Long
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Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
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Artillery
Military
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If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
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Fleas
Alone Enough Long
Bath
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There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.
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Choices
Struggle
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Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.
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Battle
Soldier
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War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
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Men
War
Creatures
Giants
Routine
Strange
Giant
Inhabit
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If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
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War
Justified
Might
Quitting
Thinking
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At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.
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Necks
Outlook
Life Your Everything
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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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Peace
Confused
Hurt
Immersed
Wobbly
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I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.
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Jobs
Play
Trying
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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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Peace
War
Black
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Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.
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Funny
Alive
World
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One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.
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War
Fighting
Lines
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Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.
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People
Two
Understanding
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[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"
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Pertinent Questions
Real
Thinking
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All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
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War
Lines
Soldier
Academically
Africa
Terribly
Soldiers
Thousands
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Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
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Bridges
Dark
Masterpiece
Shadow
Thames
Base
Below
Buildings
Dark Shadows
Dreadful
Formed
Lighter
Shadows
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About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
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Angry
Bees
Blind
Fury
Grind
Minutes
Planes
Two
Wave
Would Be
Bee
Buzzing
Motors
Rather
Roar
Seemed
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Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.
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Artillery
Enough
Gun
Literature
Officers
Sensational
Time Enough Me
Guns
Time Me Enough
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The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.
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War
Destroying
Literature
Soldier
Germans
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Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
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Bridges
Curves
Dark
London
Night
Odd
Peaceful
Silver
Someday
Thames
Balcony
Curve
Returned
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But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
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War
Battle
Blood
Fighting
Military
Profession
Soldier
Writing
Phase
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In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
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Despair
Excitement
Expression
Eye
Hatred
Simple
Pass
Tonic
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The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.
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Break Out
Closest
Died
Fire
Flames
Valor
Big Ones
Watched
Firemen
Near
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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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Cold
Columns
Deadline
Sick
Struggle
Thinking
Anyhow
Close
Lousy
Except
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The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.
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Exhaustion
Feet
Fifty
Inhuman
Walking
Weary
Apart
Bodies
Slow
Speaks
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I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.
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War
Boys
Rain
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I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
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Fighting
House
Lines
Old Friends
Return
Spring
Troops
Considerable
Front Lines
Wondered
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The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
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Adapting
Brown
Feet
Light
Outfits
Rigged
Soldier
Storage
Bare
Battery
Networks
Deep
Vast
Dug
Mode
Quick
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For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every day. But in Africa I sometimes went without a bath for two months, and I went two weeks at a time without even changing my socks. Oddly enough, it didn't seem to make much difference.
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Differences
Two
World
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Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.
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War
Believe
Military
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