Top 34 Winston Groom Quotes

#1. I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.

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#2. Things is very primitive in the jungle - no place to shit, sleep on the ground like an animal, eat out of cans, no place to take a bath or nothing, clothes is all rotting off.

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#3. Jenny and I were like peas and carrots.

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#4. Knew Americans as friends and would probably help them. If the Americans

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#5. I got to tell you, that if it weren't for that harmonica music, i might of just packed up and gone home, but it made me feel so good, I can hardly describe it. Sort of like my whole body is the harmonica and the music give me goosebumps when I play it.

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#6. Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner.

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#7. Stupid is as stupid does~

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#8. Germany," Lindbergh said, "had the ambitious drive of America, but that drive was headed for war.

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#9. I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think ... I think ... maybe ... it's both happening at the same time.

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#10. Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.

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#11. That's all I have to say about that.

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#12. If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

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#13. At dawn, they call in a napalm airplane, but it drop the shit damn near right on top of us. Our own fellers be all signed and burnt up - come running out into the open, eyes big as biscuits, everybody cussing and sweating and scared, woods set on fire, damn near put the rain out!

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#14. I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been.

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#15. Life is like a box of chocolates.

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#16. Bullets an stuff be flying all over. It is something I simply cannot understand - why in hell is we doing all this, anyway? Playing football is one thing. But this, I do not know why. Goddamn.

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#17. Sure, Gump," he say. "What the hell - we will even get him accommodations in first class.

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#18. There are jus times when you can't let the right thing stand in yo way.

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#19. Stupid is as stupid looks.

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#20. After seventeen days of flying school he could now call himself a pilot. After putting in twenty-five hours of flying time, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army. W

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#21. Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts.

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#22. With the advances of science he saw moral perspective being lost. Science and technology practically took on the role of religion, so that man was actually worshipping at the altar of science, a fallacy, if not a heresy, that could lead to the undoing of the American spirit.

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#23. I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing, an dreams is just dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

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#24. But as Lindbergh's friend former president Herbert Hoover instructed, "When you had been in politics long enough, you learned not to say things just because they are true."21

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#25. Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!

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#26. Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

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#27. I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.

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#28. Lindbergh knew perfectly well what modern bombs could do to cities but, seeing Nazi Germany for the first time, the idea of a new and very dangerous war became real to him.

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#29. The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.

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#30. One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.

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#31. Run Forrest, run!

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#32. As we will see in the following pages, peacetime is not always kind to generals and they do not necessarily do well outside their task of generaling. Perhaps that is because during war they become as close to gods on earth as we are ever likely to see. Patton

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#33. I get a letter once a week from my mama. She say everything fine at home..
I write her back too, when I can, but what I'm gonna tell her that won't start her bawling again? So I just say we is having a nice time and everybody treating us fine.

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#34. Americans have seen fit to elect twelve generals to the U.S. presidency, but even before there was a United States of America generals ruled the earth. Take

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