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“The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

“When your afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“If you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth; if you don’t care for the truth, watch how you vote.”
― 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.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.”
― Albert Camus