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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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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"There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent."
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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."


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


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


"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!"


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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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