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  1. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.
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  2. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
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  3. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
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  4. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.
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  5. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    But this too is true: stories can save us.
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  6. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
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  7. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
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  8. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.
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  9. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
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  10. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.
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  11. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
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  12. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
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