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.
I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job. - Ernie Pyle
I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.
- Ernie Pyle
Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while. - Ernie Pyle
Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone. - Ernie Pyle
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.
Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience. - Ernie Pyle
Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. - Ernie Pyle
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle. - Ernie Pyle
There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. - Ernie Pyle
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
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 … - Ernie Pyle
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 …
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… - Ernie Pyle
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…
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