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[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?

[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?"

Ernie Pyle
Real, Thinking, Pertinent Questions

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

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Funny, Alive, World
Ernie Pyle (2015). “Last Chapter”, p.70, Pickle Partners Publishing

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

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Night, Fire, Literature
Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

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Feet, Light, Soldier

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

Ernie Pyle
Firsts, Literature, Matter
Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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.

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Dark, Bridges, Shadow
Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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