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1 " I sat down and tried to write a story." Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight." That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one. After cleaning my room three times, I decided to leave Ian alone for a while because I was starting to get mad at him. "
2 " The sergeants are shunted forward and they blink and stare up at Gonzo as he leans on the edge of his giant mixing bowl. MacArthur never addressed his troops from a mixing bowl--not even one made from a spare geodesic radio emplacement shell--and certainly de Gaulle never did. But Gonzo Lubitsch does, and he does it as if a whole long line of commanders were standing at his shoulder, urging h "
3 " It was stupid not to let MacArthur finish off those rice eaters. Push 'em back. "
― H.G. Bissinger
4 " My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire. "
5 " Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence. "
― David Halberstam , The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
6 " I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history. "
