Leon Uris Quotes

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• 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

  War, Honor, Battle

  LEON URIS (1961). “MILA 18”

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• After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

  Leon Uris

  Inspiring, People, Enough

  Leon Uris (1970). “QB VII”

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• Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

  Leon Uris

  Friendship, Friends, Enemy

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• 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

  Fighting, Fire, Race

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• Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

  Leon Uris

  Fighting, Sun, Sun Rise

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• Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.

  Leon Uris

  Cousin, Brother, Father

  "The Haj". Book by Leon Uris, 1984.

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• You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.

  Leon Uris

  Lying, Typewriters, Self

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• You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

  Leon Uris

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.

  Leon Uris

  Self, Order, Two

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• 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

  Running, Hurt, Son

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• The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

  Leon Uris

  Sorry, Apology, Apologizing

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• 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

  Motivation, Persistence, Insatiable Hunger

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• The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

  Leon Uris

  Book, Writing, Knowing

  "Leon Uris" by Eric Homberger, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2003.

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• 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

  Mistake, Two, Important

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• 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

  Home, Writing, Hands

  Leon Uris (1970). “QB VII”

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• Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

  Leon Uris

  Writing, People, Breaking Down

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• If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.

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  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Memories

  Leon Uris (1976). “Trinity”, Doubleday Books

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• My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

  Leon Uris

  Book, Battle, Nine

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• You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

  Leon Uris

  Writing, Trying, Generations

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• A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

  Leon Uris

  Feet, Soldier, Wheels

  "Quotes for the Air Force Logistician" by Air Force Logistics Management Agency, p. 115, 2001.

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• A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

  Leon Uris

  Secret, Novelists, Way

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• I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.

  Leon Uris

  Men, Mets

  LEON URIS (1976). “TRINITY”

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• 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

  Writing, Important, Example

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• 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

  Sacrifice, Unique, Genius

  Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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• To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

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  Memories, Men, Matter

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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