Top 10 Robert Leckie Quotes
#1. Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes.
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#2. It is an American weakness. The success becomes the sage. Scientists counsel on civil liberty; comedians and actresses lead political rallies; athletes tell us what brand of cigarette to smoke.
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#3. From night problems we learned one lasting lesson: when a map and a compass come into contact with a second lieutenant, prepare yourself for confusion. Throughout,
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#4. We advanced on the enemy with all the stealth of a circus.
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#5. [Admiral] Halsey was jubilant. Of the Princess-Saratoga strike, he wrote: 'I sincerely expected both air groups to be cut to pieces, and both carriers stricken if not lost. (I tried hard not to remember that my son Bill was aboard one of them.)
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#6. Only rear echelons with plenty of fat on them can afford such rich diseases, like an epicure with his gout.
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#8. All the logic seemed to be on our side. The Marine Corps seemed a madness.
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#9. Smell, the sense which somehow seems a joke, is the one most susceptible to outrage. It will give you no rest. One can close one's eyes to ugliness or shield the ears from sound; but from a powerful smell there is no recourse but flight.
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#10. We have met the enemy and have learned nothing more about him. I have, however, learned some things about myself. There are things men can do to one another that are sobering to the soul. It is one thing to reconcile these things with God, but another to square it with yourself.
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