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.

Ernie Pyle
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More Quotes By Ernie Pyle
  1. There are no atheists in the foxhole.

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

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

  4. 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.

  5. Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

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