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“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 intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you. That's the real obsession. All those stories.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“in nonsense is strength”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez