James Jones, From Here To Eternity Quotes
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.
It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.
He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.
The little bit you and me might change the world, " Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it.""But it'd be there.