Ernie Pyle Quotes

• Me encanta la infantería porque son los desvalidos. Son los chicos del barro, la lluvia, la escarcha y el viento. No tienen comodidades, e incluso aprenden a vivir sin lo necesario. Y al final son los tipos sin los que no se pueden ganar las guerras.

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  War, Rain, Boys

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

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• Los marines tienen un enfoque cínico de la guerra. Creen en tres cosas: la libertad, el día de paga y que cuando dos marines están juntos en un combate, uno se está desperdiciando. Al ser un grupo militar minoritario, son orgullosos y sensibles en su trato con otras organizaciones militares. El concepto que tienen los Marines de una batalla perfecta es tener a otros Marines en los flancos derecho e izquierdo, aviones de los Marines sobrevolándoles y artillería y fuego naval de los Marines respaldándoles.

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  War, Military, Believe

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• Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

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  Two, People, Understanding

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• War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

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  War, Men, Giants

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.117, U of Nebraska Press

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• Llevo demasiado tiempo inmerso en ella. Mi espíritu se tambalea y mi mente está confusa. El dolor se ha hecho demasiado grande.

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  Peace, Hurt, Confused

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

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• There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

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  Struggle, Choices

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• Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

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  Soldier, Battle

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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• Si pasas mucho tiempo sin bañarte, hasta las pulgas te dejarán en paz.

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  Funny, Long, Fleas

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

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  Peace, War, Black

  ERNIE PYLE (1944). “BRAVE MEN”

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

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  Jobs, Play, Trying

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• 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.

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  Two, Differences, World

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• One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

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  War, Fighting, Lines

  Ernie Pyle (2016). “Brave Men”, p.127, Michael O'Mara Books

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• 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.

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  Militar, Guerra, Escritura

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

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• Aproximadamente cada dos minutos se producía una nueva oleada de aviones. Los motores parecían rechinar más que rugir, y tener una pulsación furiosa como la de una abeja zumbando con furia ciega.

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  Two, Bees, Would Be

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

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• Algún día, cuando la paz haya vuelto a este extraño mundo, quiero volver a Londres y asomarme a cierto balcón en una noche de luna y contemplar la apacible curva plateada del Támesis con sus puentes oscuros.

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  Dark, Night, Curves

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

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• Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

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  Country, War, Ugly

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• 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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  Spring, Fighting, House

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

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• In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.

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  Eye, Simple, Expression

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

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• The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

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  War, Soldier, Literature

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

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• The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.

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  Fire, Flames, Break Out

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

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• Nuestra artillería ha estado realmente sensacional. Por una vez tenemos suficiente de algo y en el momento adecuado. Los oficiales me dicen que tienen más armas de las que saben qué hacer con ellas.

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  Gun, Literature, Enough

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

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• I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Sick

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• 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.

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  War, Soldier, Lines

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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• Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.

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  Military, Artillery

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• [En lugar de la típica pregunta: "¿Por qué no podemos hacer películas más parecidas a la vida real? Creo que una pregunta más pertinente es "¿Por qué la vida real no puede parecerse más a las películas?".

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  Real, Thinking, Pertinent Questions

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