"Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby."

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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."

Richard Harding Davis, American Journalist

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"It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you."

John Dos Passos, American Novelist

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"The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season."

Martin Van Buren, American President

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"But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess."

Stuart Symington, American Businessman

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"We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?"

Dalton Trumbo, American Novelist

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"They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old."

Eddie Slovik, American Soldier

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"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."

Barry Humphries, Australian Entertainer

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"With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison."

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"The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so."

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"But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away."

Stress

"The Army was my bread and butter."

Army

"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."

Movies

"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."

Business

"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"

Writing

"There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time."

Time

"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."

Creativity

"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him."

God

"But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster."

Evil

"The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs."

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