“But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.”
― Northern Lights
― Northern Lights
“What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“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
“A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.”
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