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Things Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.
- And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads…
- They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of 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.
- ...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.
- Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more,…
- But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the…
- It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you…
- There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.
- When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.
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