Ernie Pyle Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Ernie Pyle quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased journalist born on Aug 3, 1900). These are the last 10 out of 20 quotes we have for him.
“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”
“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.”
“At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.”
“It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.”
“Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.”
“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.”
“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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