Top 65 Leon Uris Quotes
#1. Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.
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#2. I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.
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#3. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.
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#4. I do not write for an audience.
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#5. So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain ... and retain.
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#6. To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.
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#7. I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
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#8. Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
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#9. I essentially write for myself.
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#10. To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.
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#11. I was a terrible English student.
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#12. English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.
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#13. Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.
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#14. Truth is what people want to believe and nothing more.
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#15. France was the first country in Europe to grant Jews the full rights of citizenship without qualification.
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#16. I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
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#17. They lingered over cups of ersatz coffee.
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#19. After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.
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#20. There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?
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#21. Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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#22. Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
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#23. Too many writers start with a good idea and carry it through the first chapters, then fall apart because they had no idea where the top of the mountain was in the first place.
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#24. The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
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#25. All men have a measure of cowardice in them. I learned that love of one's mates can overcome your fears. I learned that every survivor of this horror must try to live a good life because he lives for many men.
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#26. You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.
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#27. A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
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#28. I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
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#29. We once again man the barricades
alone. Berated by our smug, so-called allies, of the Western Democracies. Islam is going to turn this world inside out before this century is out and you'd better have enough guts to deal with it.
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#31. Our land has grown a magnificent liberty tree and its fruit is the richest ideal of the human soul. But, we cannot go on forever merely eating the fruit of the liberty tree or it will die. We must begin to plant some seeds.
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#32. Subjugate the Arab world. Dr. Weizmann and the Zionists felt
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#33. Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.
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#34. Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.
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#36. All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
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#37. My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.
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#38. You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
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#39. I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.
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#40. On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.
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#41. and the righteous cowed and the evil grew bold.
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#42. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
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#43. I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.
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#44. You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.
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#45. In the end, what would Michele's life be? A
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#46. Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
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#47. Value time!!! It's only when we lack time for ourselves that we start valuing it.
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#48. THE MOMENT OF DECISION is the loneliest in human life. It must be come upon in stillness and darkness and brooding thoughts and doubts torn out from the deep reaches of the soul.
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#49. I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
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#50. It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.
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#51. Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.
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#52. The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.
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#53. Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.
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#54. My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
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#55. Nordstrom." "Would you care for some tea or a brandy?" "No ... Nicole, I know
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#56. I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.
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#57. Until a man is struck in his own face he does not want to believe the attack on his brother concerns him.
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#58. In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.
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#59. If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it ... you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.
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#60. Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.
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#61. What could be more fortunate for the German propaganda machine than to be able to pump the theme that the Jews of Palestine were stealing the Arab lands just as they had tried to steal Germany. Jew hating and British imperialism - what music to the Mufti's ears! The
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#62. Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough.
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#63. The only time we can attract a crowd is for some pilgrimage up some god-damned holy mountain to chase the snakes and banshees out of the country.
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#64. A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.
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#65. You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women
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