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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

But I retained the landscape, and I have since annually carried off what it yielded without a wheelbarrow. — Henry David Thoreau

They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak. — Tim O'Brien

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it. — Cheryl Strayed

Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships ... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff. — Rose George

Every How is carried by a What. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

So I carried on, waiting for what ever was to come, with or without God's help — Julie Halpern

He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is in it. — Marcus Sedgwick

That was probably the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me."
"What? Almost falling in a ditch?"
"No, being carried by a girl. — Brandy Nacole

There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India. — Tony Blair

He's carried dead men, felt the weight of their forfeited hopes. He will do what needs to be done. — Eddie Joyce

Nobody had faith in me when I got here except my team. That's what carried me through all the transition problems and adjustments and everything. — Pau Gasol

Month to month there were many discrepancies carried forward without resolution through what I jokingly called my "999 (or Nick Leeson)" account. — Jon Edgell

No matter what creatures people fear in the dead of the night, in this city, violence is more likely to be carried out by men — Bethany Griffin

What we left behind can't be seen; what we gathered can't be carried. — Julie Eshbaugh

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity? — Alfred De Vigny

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. — William Faulkner

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before. — David Cassidy

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up. — Johnny Vegas

Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did. — Duke Ellington

What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp. — Judith Ivory

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae. — Erri De Luca

The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent. — Jose Saramago

Carried to its logical limits, a system in which no one has a choice about what action to take is unworkable. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light. — Benjamin Avila

Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest. — Michael Arrington

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do. — Rosanne Cash

Nyx did what she always did after she shot a terrorist or garrotted a deserter. She carried on. — Kameron Hurley

What grain of dust can be easier carried by your life's emptiness wind than the knowledge? — Sorin Cerin

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself. — Scott Westerfeld

I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for. — Will Shields

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act? — Andrei Platonov

Basketball was mine, and that's what's carried me to this point. — Stephen Curry

Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium. — Amanda Steele

Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche. — Natalie Goldberg

They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us. — Alice Hoffman