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"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
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"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."
"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."
"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."
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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."
"Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels."
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"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."
"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."
"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
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