“War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns. But I don’t suppose that’s the kind of victory you boys mean for me to talk on.”
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“You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.”
“. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.”
“Ruth, do what you must to keep our family out of harm’s way.”
“The premiere was as exciting as the 1938 boxing match between Max Schmeling and Joe Lewis.”
“It's amazin’ what people tell you when they’re relaxed and sittin’ in a barber chair.”