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THE NOMINATED WORKS
BEST QUOTES
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A cold dread washed over Colonel Hogan as he realized that he hadn't considered this scenario.
His men were on time. All of them.
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"And if there's a whole galaxy full of women, as she said..."
"Then we'd better hope the chocolate never runs out. If it does, God help us all."
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"Are you always this infuriating?"
"Oh no, sir. Sometimes I'm asleep."
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"Friends are like balloons.
When they get too full of themselves, there's nothing like a successful prank to let out some air
and bring them back down to earth."
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"Got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, if you ask me."
"Well, Newkirk, I can't see how that's possible. The other side is the wall."
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Grown men did not pout; they frowned in disappointment.
And Carter noticed that every single one of them was not-pouting.
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7
"Hogan… there is one favor I'd like to ask of you.
After your Patton arrives and before I'm taken to an Allied POW camp,
there's one thing I'd like to see. Your tunnel."
"I'll tell you what, Kommandant. If Patton comes and if they plan on shipping you out
and if I have a tunnel under construction at the time…
well, I'll think about showing it to you."
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"I felt a volunteer vibe from you. Go get on a civilian suit."
"Boy, the way they give orders around here someone's gonna think we're in the army!"
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9
"Instead of saying you're bald, sir, why don't you say you're folically challenged?
That has a better ring to it."
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10
"It's no wonder you Germans are losing the war;
all you people do is go around inspecting each other."
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It started out like every other morning in a POW camp. Really, it did.
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It was 2355 on a winter night in Germany (for it was always winter, except when it was not).
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13
"Just think, sir – if your shoes go to the Russian front, you won't have to."
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"Leprechauns in Germany, that's like saying the Easter Bunny is Australian!"
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15
"Major, that is my paperwork!"
"Find yourself some other paperwork – I have a code to crack."
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16
Parachutes. Dozens of them.
They seemed to drift on the wind in absolute silence, slowly, gracefully,
like white snow from an ink-black sky.
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17
"Schultz especially is susceptible to bribery with treats:
I'm his maître d'Apfelstrudel – he sees nothing when he eats."
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18
"Should be a piece of pie – we've done far crazier things, haven't we?"
"You mean 'piece of cake'," Carter corrected him solemnly –
only to look around in confusion at the general bout of laughter that followed his words.
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19
"Sir, are you thinking what I think you're thinking?"
"That's exactly what I'm thinking."
"Great. Would you care to inform the rest of us?"
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20
The legend of the dreaded monster H'rshi terrified children of all ages.
In the tale, only the valiant warriors of the Matriarchate stood between the dark foe and the utter destruction of civilization.
It was a story passed on to generations of young ones who eventually grew to dismiss such fairy tales as nonsense;
after all, monsters didn't exist, and it was just a silly, childish story – wasn't it?
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"Well, the U.S. Navy has an old saying, Major."
"And that is...?"
"A woman in every port. Naturally, the Air Force likes to keep their women in the closet. More efficient that way. Besides, if the closet is large enough for two..."
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22
"What is going on here?" General Burkhalter asked,
the jolly smile he wore while looking at Helga quickly dissolving into intense annoyance.
Or indigestion. One of the two.
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23
"Who do you think you are kidding, Colonel Hogan,
if you think we guards are dumb!
We are the ones handling giant killer dogs –
you only deal with one angry little Frog!"
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24
"You have drenched me with ice water; thrown me off a plane;
convinced me I was psychic and a great painter when I am neither;
kidnapped me; gotten me thrown into a Parisian jail on my vacation; waltzed off with my dates;
made a fool of me one thousand ninety-five times over;
put me at the risk of death or the Russian Front at least once a week since you became my charge;
stolen my clothes, my cigars, my Schnapps,
and you have never, ever, let me down."
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"You're out of regulation, Corporal. And out of fashion. Shave off those sideburns."
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And now – finally – on to the most prestigious category of all: the best story of 2014...
A category where fierce competition reigned among the nominated stories in order to qualify.
Eight stories finally made it...
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