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Ernie Pyle Quotes

Ernie Pyle quotes

American Journalist August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945

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To me, the summer wind in the Midwest is one of the most melancholy things in all life. It comes from so far away and blows so gently and yet so relentlessly; it rustles the leaves and the branches of the maple trees in a sort of symphony of sadness, and it doesn't pass on and leave them still. It just keeps coming, like the infinite flow of Old Man River. You could -- and you do -- wear out your lifetime on the dusty plains with that wind of futility blowing in your face. And when you are... Ernie Pyle
Ernie Pyle quote: "At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is..."
At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life. Ernie Pyle
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. Ernie Pyle
Ernie Pyle quote: "I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my..."
I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great. Ernie Pyle
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. Ernie Pyle
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. Ernie Pyle
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. Ernie Pyle
Ernie Pyle quote: "If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will..."
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. 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 here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else. 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, no matter how hard we work, are not. Ernie Pyle
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. Ernie Pyle
Ernie Pyle quote: "If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel..."
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war. Ernie Pyle
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. Ernie Pyle
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. Ernie Pyle
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. Ernie Pyle

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