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Kathy Riebeling
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Elephant calves will not sleep without an adult figure nearby—even human, if that’s all there is—and they’ll look up constantly to make sure someone is with them. The longing in a young elephant’s eyes is haunting, and the attachment
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“Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.”
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“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
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“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
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“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
“It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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