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“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
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“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.”
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“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 out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.”
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