“We act insane, because if we didn't, we would most surely become insane.
- Hawkeye”
― quote from MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
“When Radar O'Reilly, just out of high school, left Ottumwa, Iowa, and enlisted in the United States Army it was with the express purpose of making a career of the Signal Corps.”
― quote from MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
“You know who we been living with for the past week? We been living with the only man in history who ever took a piece in the ladies’ can of a Boston & Maine train. When the conductor caught him in there with his Winter Carnival date she screamed, ‘He trapped me!’ and that’s how he got his name. This is the famous Trapper John. God, Trapper, I speak for the Duke as well as myself when I say it’s an honor to have you with us. Have a martini, Trapper.”
― quote from MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
“He might make it, even if all I really did was hit him in the head with an axe.”
― quote from MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
“When they awakened at four o'clock in the afternoon, all was quiet. Duke peeked out the door and closed it quickly.
'What do the initials M.P. stand for?' he inquired.
'Shore Patrol,' answered Trapper John.”
― quote from MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
“You make pictures, not take them?
Yes. At least that's how I think of it. That's the difference between Sunday snapshooters and someone who does it for a living... I don't just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit. I try to find the poetry in the image.”
― Robert James Waller, quote from The Bridges of Madison County
“One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Hunt for Red October
“And it was because of their long history that he searched for something to say, something that would get them back to where they had been.
All that came to him was...I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Lover Mine
“It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from The Color of Magic
“The fact that you use the term "cunt" in the same breath as "sexist", shows that you display the same muddled, fucked-up thinking oan this issue as you do oan everything else.”
― Irvine Welsh, quote from Trainspotting
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