Quotes by Ernie Pyle

Ernie Pyle

[I]nstead of the usual “Why can’t we make movies more like real life?” I think a more pertinent question is “Why can’t real life be more like the movies?”

Pertinent Questions

Real

Thinking

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.

Bees

Two

Would Be

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.

Lines

Soldier

War

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.

Bridges

Dark

Shadow

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.

Military

War

Writing

For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every day. But in Africa I sometimes went without a bath for two months, and I went two weeks at a time without even changing my socks. Oddly enough, it didn’t seem to make much difference.

Differences

Two

World

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

Black

Peace

War

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can’t be won without.

Boys

Rain

War

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there’s just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

Jobs

Play

Trying

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.

Fighting

House

Spring

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Bees

Believe

Black

Boys

Break Out

Bridges

Choices

Confused

Country

Curves

Dark

Differences

Enough

Expression

Eye

Feet

Fighting

Fire

Firsts

Flames

Fleas

Funny

Giants

Gun

House

Hurt

Jobs

Light

Lines

Literature

Long

Matter

Men

Might

Military

Night

Peace

People

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Simple

Soldier

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Quotes by Ernie Pyle

Ernie Pyle

[I]nstead of the usual “Why can’t we make movies more like real life?” I think a more pertinent question is “Why can’t real life be more like the movies?”

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.

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.

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.

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.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can’t be won without.

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there’s just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

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.

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