Ernie Pyle Quotes

United States, Journalist
August 3, 1900 – April, 18, 1945.

Ernest Taylor Pyle was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist. As a roving correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, he earned wide acclaim for his accounts of ordinary people in rural America, and later, of ordinary American soldiers during World War II. His syndicated column ran in more than 300 newspapers nationwide.

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I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Ernie Pyle
- Hurt
- Spirit
- Confused
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Ernie Pyle
- War
- Creatures
- Routine

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

Ernie Pyle
- War
- Justified
Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

Ernie Pyle
All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

Ernie Pyle
- War
- Soldiers
- Africa
I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

Ernie Pyle
- Job
- Safe
- Foolish
The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

Ernie Pyle
- War
- Soldier
- Destroying