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1. "Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness." ~ Leon Uris
2. "There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?" ~ Leon Uris
3. "All men have a measure of cowardice in them. I learned that love of one's mates can overcome your fears. I learned that every survivor of this horror must try to live a good life because he lives for many men." ~ Leon Uris
4. "And that is where I have failed you, Ari. You see, I would have crawled to your mother a million times. I would crawl to her because I need her in order to live. She is my strength. God help me, Ari, I have been a party to the creation of a breed of men and women so hard they refuse to know the meaning of tears and humility." ~ Leon Uris
5. "Sin? What is sin inside the dynamic of family relationships? It is a mystery that began with man. No one can solve it except through his own unique experience. How you feel is human. But do not think it will leave you alone. We are never free of our blood." ~ Leon Uris
6. "Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies." ~ Leon Uris
7. "I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish." ~ Leon Uris
8. "Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built." ~ Leon Uris
9. "English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it." ~ Leon Uris
10. "I do not write for an audience." ~ Leon Uris
11. "I essentially write for myself." ~ Leon Uris
12. "I was a terrible English student." ~ Leon Uris
13. "I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer." ~ Leon Uris
14. "My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953." ~ Leon Uris
15. "So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain." ~ Leon Uris
16. "Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it." ~ Leon Uris
17. "Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer" ~ Leon Uris
18. "Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore." ~ Leon Uris
19. "A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt." ~ Leon Uris
20. "Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naïve or insane." ~ Leon Uris
21. "With so much utter insanity all about, a man had to keep a clear head. Clement reckoned a scientist could actually chart the course of human events as one would chart the tides and waves of the sea. There were waves of emotion and hate and waves of complete unreason. They'd reach a peak and fall to nothingness. All mankind lived in this sea except for a few who perched on islands so high and dry they remained always out of the reach of the mainstream of life. A university, Johann Clement reasoned, was such an island, such a sanctuary." ~ Leon Uris
22. "Karen Hansen Clement sank deep in melancholy. She heard till she could hear no more. She saw until she could see no more. She was exhausted and confused, and the will to go on was being drained from her blood. Then, as so often happens when one reaches the end of the line, there was a turning upward and she emerged into the light. It" ~ Leon Uris
23. "From there Ari took her to the church which marked the place of the miracle of the multiplication of loaves and fishes a short distance from Capernaum. The floor of the church held a Byzantine mosaic depicting cormorants and herons and ducks and other wild birds which still inhabited the lake. And then they moved on to the Mount of Beatitudes to a little chapel on the hill where Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. These were His words spoken from this place. As she" ~ Leon Uris
24. "God figured out when he separated us from the rest of the creatures that if we have the power to reason and justify and make decisions, then we are going to make a lot of mistakes passing through. Big, big, big mistakes. God understood that, then gave us the ultimate human power, the power of redemption." ~ Leon Uris
25. "Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall." ~ Leon Uris
26. "Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers." ~ Leon Uris
27. "Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about." ~ Leon Uris
28. "I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do." ~ Leon Uris
29. "I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail." ~ Leon Uris
30. "This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates of all that back there in the real world the memories will overtake you and swamp you and wilt your tenacity. Tenacity stamina... close off to everything and everyone but your writing. That s the bloody price. I don t know maybe it's some kind of ultimate selfishness. Maybe it's part of the killer instinct. Unless you can stash away and bury thoughts of your greatest love you cannot sustain the kind of concentration that breaks most men trying to write a book over a three or four year period." ~ Leon Uris
31. "Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage." ~ Leon Uris
32. "All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor." ~ Leon Uris
33. "Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love." ~ Leon Uris
34. "One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you're afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?" ~ Leon Uris
35. "To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind." ~ Leon Uris
36. "Pride is a fool's fortress" ~ Leon Uris
37. "Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span." ~ Leon Uris
38. "Value time!!! It's only when we lack time for ourselves that we start valuing it." ~ Leon Uris
39. "Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, as he passed Parker through. A government tourist hostess approached him."Are you Mr. Mark Parker?""Guilty." ~ Leon Uris
40. "You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women" ~ Leon Uris
41. "Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough." ~ Leon Uris
42. "It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually." ~ Leon Uris
43. "To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make." ~ Leon Uris
44. "Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?" ~ Leon Uris
45. "I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you." ~ Leon Uris
46. "In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all start up again in a million years when the planet has all its messes cleaned up. Then, finally, one of these civilizations, say five billion years from now, will last because people treat each other the way they ought to." ~ Leon Uris

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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present."
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