Ernie Pyle Quotes

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire. - Ernie Pyle

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. - Ernie Pyle

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war. - 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

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

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

At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life. - Ernie Pyle

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. - 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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