“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
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“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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