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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Apr 22, 2013 06:19PM

“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.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

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

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