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America is a living structure of human lives, of all the American lives that ever were and ever will be.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
And so the pattern lives and it can manifest itself in any number of bits of perishable cloth, but the pattern is indestructible.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
We're mixing our lives together, Maily, and we'll never be able to unmix them again, and we'll never want to.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
I take you for what you are, and all that you are, and mix you with all of me, and I don't hold back nothing.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
I will just love you, Frenchy, all of me there is just loving you forever.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
Even then, we know only the fibers that press against us.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
In our flag the barriers of time and space vanish. All America that ever was and ever will be lives every moment in our flag. Wherever in the world two or three of us stand together under our flag, all America is there.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
I'm going to stay with you all that I can, take the very best care of you that I can, and love you every minute until I die.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
One American life from birth to death is like a single fiber. Each one is spun into the yarn of a family and the strand of a home town and the rope of a home state.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
Jake Holman knew he was a strange bird and he was used to going aboard new ships. By the time they realized they were in a struggle Jake Holman would already have made for himself the place he wanted on their ship and they could never dislodge him. Or wish to.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
It is said there will be no more war. We must pretend to believe that. But when war comes, it is we who will take the first shock and buy time with our lives. It is we who keep the faith.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
For us who wear the uniform, every day is Flag Day. We pay our honor in act and feeling and we have little need of words. But on this one day it will not hurt us to grasp briefly in words the meaning of our flag.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)
Civilians are only morally bound to salute our flag. We are legally bound. All Americans are morally bound to die for our flag, if called upon. Only we are legally bound. Only we live our lives in a day to day readiness for that sacrifice.
The Sand Pebbles (1962)