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Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

Herman Wouk
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Herman Wouk's Popular Quotes

Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways,…

- Herman Wouk

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and …

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When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

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Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

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I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

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Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming o…

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This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

- Herman Wouk
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