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incandescent courtship,
The girl you marry, and the woman you must make a life with, are two different people.
It had been an exciting talk, the sort in which lovers sometimes discover each other without speaking a romantic word.
Even his handwriting fitted the picture: slanting, undistinguished, the letters small and flattened. The pathetically flourishing B of his signature stood out of the mediocre penmanship. All of Byron’s frustrated yearning to amount to something, to measure up to his father’s hopes, was in that extravagant B. All his inconsequence was in the trailed-off, crushed “… yron.”
He sat on a bench for a moment looking at the flag, suffused with zest for life and a burning wish to live a long time yet in this radiant world through which he had been walking blind as a bat. This grim stocky obscure American Navy captain sat bemused on a London park bench, undergoing an exaltation for which he finally found the name. At first he had thought his exhilarated mood was the snapback from the bombing mission, the plain joy of being alive after brushing death in a diving plane, in a whirl of blue cones and exploding colored balls. But it was something more. Nothing like this had
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Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime, don’t they?
War not only forces intense new relationships; it puts old ones to the breaking stress.
Wherever duty takes you, remember there are two sides to the war, and that on both sides there are men of honor.”
‘Close your eyes. Life is simpler with your eyes closed.’
“If is the longest two-letter word in the language.”
unreachably more brilliant.
Their chief natural resource was willpower.
