"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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Source : Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

Ernie Pyle

#Dark Quotes #Night Quotes #Curves Quotes

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?”
“Those who trespass in others' souls will always get burned in the end.”
“Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.”
“A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.”
“If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.”
“History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.”
“Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.”
“They call it 'falling in love' because it's less like stepping and more like tripping. Tripping is the part where you're still trying to remain upright”

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