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Most of the things in 'The Things They Carried' didn't happen to me. Ninety-five percent of it's invented. It's not what occurred. — Tim O'Brien

I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon. — Eddie Redmayne

Is getting filthy rich still your goal above all goals, your be-all and end-all, the mist-shrouded high-altitude spawning pond to your inner salmon? — Mohsin Hamid

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — Woodrow Wilson

The best things carried to excess are wrong. — Charles Churchill

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. — Malcolm Gladwell

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is
and a woman too, I guess. — John Steinbeck

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out! — Ben Affleck

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God. — Orson Welles

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter. — Alan Patricof

Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried. — Megan Devine

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back. — Fredrik Backman

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world. — Mark Twain

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas. — Louise Erdrich

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move. — Tim O'Brien

But this too is true: stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien

Wolves are not all the things people want them to be, good or bad, but they've carried with them forever the most baggage. — Carter Niemeyer

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned — Karen Blixen

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up. — Tim O'Brien

Stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien

And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. — Tim O'Brien

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. — Marcus Aurelius

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do. — Tim O'Brien

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried. — Tim O'Brien

If we focus just on what's ugly and bad, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and eventually into our lives ... — Jose N. Harris

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things. — Susan Hill

If I could have taken Ari's pain, I would. Pain and scars, however, were the two things everyone carried themselves. — J.C. Nelson

Don't be afraid to be unique or speak your mind, because that's what makes you different from everyone else. — Dave Thomas

But in a story I can steal her soul. — Tim O'Brien

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost. — Jagjit Singh

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. — Sherwood Anderson

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences. — Raquel Cepeda

Think like a person of action; act like a person of thought. — Howard Behar

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there. — Andrew McMahon