Ernst Udet quotes
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“. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain with the swipe of a paw. I sit there, flying on, and continue to stare, as though mesmerised, at the Cauldron on my left.”
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“To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.”
-- Ernst Udet
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“Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.”
Source : "Best Story; Narrate Or Die" by A.S. Byatt, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.
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“Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.”
Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.”
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Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor
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