Navy following the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. It then came out as a paperback novel in 1956. movie three years later that starred Natalie Wood as a middle-class Jewish girl living in the Bronx in the 1930s who wants to be an actress.Įarlier, he co-wrote the screenplay for Slattery’s Hurricane (1949), a melodrama about a pilot starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell and Veronica Lake. We hope you’ll join us.Wouk’s 1955 novel, Marjorie Morningstar, became a Warner Bros. That we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters we read books cover-to-cover but Typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. World conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous Submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing toįounded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people Interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Herman Wouk, quote from The Winds of WarīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, It’s only Napoleon’s original vision, but he was a century ahead of his time.” Somebody has to be ruthless enough to do it, since the peoples with their ancient hatreds will never do it themselves. The balance of power is dangerous foolishness in the industrial age. The medieval jigsaw of nations is obsolete. He understands them, and he may just succeed.

Hitler means to hammer out a united Europe. He uses racism because that’s the pure distillate of German romantic egotism, just as Lenin used utopian Marxism because it appealed to Russia’s messianic streak. He uses doctrines as he uses money, to get things done. I’m impressed with Hitler’s ability to use socialist prattle when necessary, and then discard it. The concentration camps are for anybody who still wants the socialist part of National Socialism.' The big Nazis live like barons, like sultans. He’s frozen the German economy just as it was, smashed the labor unions, lengthened the working hours, cut the pay, and kept all the old rich crowd on top, the Krupps and Thyssens, the men who gave him the money to run for office. Hitler’s socialism was a sham to get a mob of gangsters into power. You may like it or detest it, but it’s new.

The abolition of private property has created a new world. “The Russian Revolution is a radical change in history.

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