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assailing her. Were they doing the — Herman Wouk

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more. — Herman Wouk

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight. — Herman Wouk

The girl you marry and the woman you must make a life with are two different people. — Herman Wouk

screws on the cowlings. Only a divine miracle — Herman Wouk

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans. — Herman Wouk

You can't assume a goddamned thing in this Navy. — Herman Wouk

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. — Herman Wouk

So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up. — Herman Wouk

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. — Herman Wouk

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. — Herman Wouk

This life is slow suicide, unless you read. — Herman Wouk

It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines. — Herman Wouk

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. — Herman Wouk

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime. — Herman Wouk

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth. — Herman Wouk

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge. — Herman Wouk

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule. — Herman Wouk

Talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife. — Herman Wouk

face grew longer and grimmer as Berel — Herman Wouk

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand. — Herman Wouk

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze. — Herman Wouk

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them. — Herman Wouk

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot. — Herman Wouk

Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most. — Herman Wouk

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns. — Herman Wouk

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. — Herman Wouk

Write a page a day. It will add up. — Herman Wouk

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention. — Herman Wouk

A war always ends. — Herman Wouk

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. — Herman Wouk

The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith ... — Herman Wouk

There are good and bad things in all political systems. — Herman Wouk

This is an excellent martini - sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud. — Herman Wouk

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. — Herman Wouk

Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them. — Herman Wouk

No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile. — Herman Wouk

Can't stop a Nazi with a lawbook. — Herman Wouk

Sex takes up a very small part of the day, anyway." "It makes the rest of the day worth living." "You — Herman Wouk