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• Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

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  Writing, Easier, Harder

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• Y al final, por supuesto, una verdadera historia de guerra nunca es sobre la guerra. Es sobre la luz del sol. Trata de la forma especial en que el amanecer se extiende sobre un río cuando sabes que debes cruzarlo y marchar hacia las montañas y hacer cosas que temes hacer. Es sobre el amor y la memoria. Trata del dolor. Trata de hermanas que nunca responden y de personas que nunca escuchan.

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  Memorias, Guerra, Escritura

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

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  Dream, Stories, World

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Todo el mundo hace el tonto alguna vez para que le quieran.

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  Estúpido, Orden

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• [Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

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  War, Evil, Stories

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.

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  Nice, Ideas, Hindsight

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• It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.

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  Blood, Giving, Together

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...te encuentras estudiando los finos colores del río, sientes asombro y admiración ante la puesta de sol, y te invade un amor duro y dolorido por cómo el mundo podría ser y siempre debería ser, pero ahora no lo es.

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  Color, Ríos, Encontrarte a ti mismo

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

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  Brave, Important, Distinction

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El mundo chilla y hunde garras en nuestros corazones. A esto lo llamamos memoria.

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  Memories, Heart, World

  Tim O'Brien (2011). “Tomcat in Love”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• Mitchell Sanders tenía razón. Para el soldado común, al menos, la guerra tiene la sensación -la textura espiritual- de una gran niebla fantasmal, espesa y permanente. No hay claridad. Todo se arremolina. Las viejas reglas ya no son vinculantes, las viejas verdades ya no son ciertas. Lo correcto se convierte en incorrecto. El orden se mezcla con el caos, el amor con el odio, la fealdad con la belleza, la ley con la anarquía, la civilidad con el salvajismo. Los vapores te absorben. No sabes dónde estás, ni por qué estás ahí, y la única certeza es una ambigüedad abrumadora.

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  Espiritual, Odio, Guerra

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• En la guerra se pierde el sentido de lo definitivo y, por tanto, el sentido de la verdad, por lo que se puede afirmar que en una historia bélica nada es absolutamente cierto.

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  Guerra, Historias, Seguro

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

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  Pain, Laughter, Doe

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• Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.

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  No muertos

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• He sobrevivido, pero no es un final feliz.

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  Vida, Finales Felices, Lluvia

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.

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  Hero, Waiting, Leaving

  Tim O'Brien (1990). “The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction”, Broadway

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• I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.

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  Libro, Lectura, Sabe

  Tim O'Brien (1990). “The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction”, Broadway

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• A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.

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• Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.

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  Hate, Men, Needs

  Tim O'Brien (2011). “Tomcat in Love”, p.319, Broadway Books

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• El teniente primero Jimmy Cross llevaba cartas de una chica llamada Martha, estudiante de tercer año en el Mount Sebastian College de Nueva Jersey. No eran cartas de amor, pero el teniente Cross tenía esperanzas, así que las guardaba dobladas en plástico en el fondo de su rusack. A última hora de la tarde, después de un día de marcha, cavaba su trinchera, se lavaba las manos bajo una cantimplora, desenvolvía las cartas, las sostenía con la punta de los dedos y pasaba la última hora de luz fingiendo.

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  Girl, College, Light

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.

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  Struggle, Heart, Character

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• With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

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  Fear, Hangover, Difficult

  Tim O'Brien (2011). “If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home”, p.108, Broadway Books

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• ... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.

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  Eye, Kissing, Numbness

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

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  Art, Way, Fiction

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• Ya entonces, a los nueve años, quería vivir dentro de su cuerpo. Quería fundirme en sus huesos - ESE tipo de amor.

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  Years, Body, Nine

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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