Tim O'Brien - Carried Quotes

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

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They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

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They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the power of the things they carried.

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They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing — these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight.

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They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

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