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Men Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
- It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.
- Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred.…
- They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and…
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