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William H. Mauldin Quotes
«They are normal people who have been put where they are, and whose actions and feelings have been molded by their circumstances. There are gentlemen and boors; intelligent ones and stupid ones; talented ones and inefficient ones. . . . But when they are all together and they are fighting, despite their bitching and griping and goldbricking and mortal fear, they are facing cold steel and screaming lead and hard enemies, and they are advancing and beating the hell out of the opposition.»
Author: William H. Mauldin
(Cartoonist)
«The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.»
Author: William H. Mauldin
(Cartoonist)
«If he is looking weary and resigned to the fact that he is probably going to die before it is over, and if he has a deep, almost hopeless desire to go home and forget it all; if he looks with dull, uncomprehending eyes at the fresh-faced kid who is talking about all the joys of battle and killing Germans, then he comes from the same infantry as Joe and Willie .»
Author: William H. Mauldin
(Cartoonist)
«I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.»
Author: William H. Mauldin
(Cartoonist)
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«My business is drawing, not writing, and this text is pretty much background for the drawings.»
Author: William H. Mauldin
(Cartoonist)
«The only problem with drawing Nixon is restraint. Your tendency is to let your feelings come out. He's such a loathsome son of a bitch, and he looks so loathsome.»
Author: William H. Mauldin
(Cartoonist)
«If you can get behind an Englishman's unholy fear of making a friend until he has known the candidate for at least five years, you will find him a pretty good egg.»
Author: William H. Mauldin
(Cartoonist)
«How ya gonna find out if they're fresh troops if ya don't wake 'em up and ask 'em?»
Author: William H. Mauldin
(Cartoonist)