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  1. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    You can't assume a goddamned thing in this Navy.
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  2. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    Remember this, if you can-there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end-only at the end it becomes more obvious. Use your time while you have it, Willie, in making something of yourself.
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  3. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    Cabs, cabs! Why did God give you feet? Walk me to Fiftieth.
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  4. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    Sex takes up a very small part of the day, anyway." "It makes the rest of the day worth living." "You
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  5. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    don't make the mistake of skipping the Old Testament. It's the core of all religion, I
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  6. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    Willie experienced the strange sensations of the first days of a new captain: a shrinking of his personal identiy, and a stretching out of his nerve ends to all the spaces and machinery of the ship. He was less free than before. He developed the apprehensive listening ears of a young mother; the ears listened on in his sleep; he never quite slept, not the way he had before.
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  7. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    Can't stop a Nazi with a lawbook.
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  8. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    Seventeen days before the end of the war, the minesweeper Caine finally swept a mine.
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  9. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    the one loophole that military wisdom can never quite button up-the sympathy of the downtrodden for each other.
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  10. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    the nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines-arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, revolted look, as though someone had just offered her a jellyfish to hold.
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  11. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    I think appreciating Dickens goes with ten thousand in the bank.
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  12. Herman Wouk _ The Caine Mutiny

    He's too clever to be wise, if that makes any sense. Very
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