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Quotes from Up Front — Bill Mauldin

1921–2003 United States

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5 quotes

No normal man who has smelled and associated with death ever wants to see any more of it.

Up Front (1945)

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

Up Front (1945)

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains.

Up Front (1945)

They are rough and their language gets coarse because they live a life stripped of convention and niceties.
Their nobility and dignity come from the way they live unselfishly and risk their lives to help each other.

Up Front (1945)

While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and Victory garden, a dogface somewhere is getting great joy out of wiggling his little finger. He does it just to see it move and to prove to himself that he is still alive and able to move it.

Up Front (1945)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bill Mauldin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.