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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
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
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
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
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 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