Top 51 Herman Wouk Quotes
#1. The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.
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#2. the nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines - arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, revolted look, as though someone had just offered her a jellyfish to hold.
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#3. I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
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#4. See, the Germans aren't kidding about the Jews. They're cooking us down to soap over there. They think we're vermin and should be 'sterminated and our corpses turned into something useful.
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#5. The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.
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#6. The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
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#8. Sex takes up a very small part of the day, anyway." "It makes the rest of the day worth living." "You
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#9. The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith ...
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#10. Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.
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#11. War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.
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#13. Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them.
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#14. Talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.
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#15. A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.
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#16. All the prophecy of Israel turns on one simple but extremely effective idea: namely that all Israel, living and dead, from Sinai to the present hour, stands in its relation to God as a single immortal individual.
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#17. The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law.
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#18. This life is slow suicide, unless you read.
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#19. She had learned from her encounter with Mike Eden that there really was more than one man in the world-the piece of knowledge that more than anything else divides women from girls.
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#20. I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.
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#21. Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most.
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#22. I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
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#23. No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.
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#24. About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.
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#25. So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up.
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#26. Remember this, if you can
there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end
only in the end it becomes more obvious.
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#27. It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.
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#28. The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.
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#29. Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
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#32. We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.
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#33. This is an excellent martini - sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
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#34. Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
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#35. There are good and bad things in all political systems.
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#36. A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.
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#37. Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
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#38. Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.
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#39. The girl you marry and the woman you must make a life with are two different people.
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#40. Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.
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#41. You can't assume a goddamned thing in this Navy.
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#42. He was just head over ears in love, with a young woman as near as his hand and as remote as a star, and for the moment it was enough to be where she was.
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#43. Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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#44. Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
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#45. Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
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#46. I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
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#48. Steamy day, and though the windows of the oval study were open, the room was oppressively hot. You know Captain Henry, of course, Admiral? His boy's just gotten his wings at Pensacola.
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#49. The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
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#50. screws on the cowlings. Only a divine miracle
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#51. I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
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