# Quote — James Jones, The Thin Red Line

> There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad.

- Author: [James Jones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-jones.md)
- Book: [The Thin Red Line](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-jones/the-thin-red-line.md)
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> The two transports had sneaked up from the south in the first graying flush of dawn, their cumbersome mass cutting smoothly through the water whose still greater mass bore them silently, themselves s gray as the dawn which camouflaged them.

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> This book is cheerfully dedicated to those greatest and most heroic of all human endeavors, WAR and WARFARE; may they never cease to give us the pleasure, excitement and adrenal stimulation that we need, or provide us with the heroes, the presidents and the leaders, the monuments and museums which we erect to them in the name of PEACE.

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