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  1. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage.
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  2. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    His brain had the bends.
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  3. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    Money was never a problem, passports were never required. There were always new places to dance."
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  4. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    Yes," she said, "television is one of those unique products of the American genius. A means of keeping a complex country intact. Just as America begins to explode every which way, riches and opportunity and complexity, just then along comes the TV to bring it all together. Rich and poor, black and white-they share the same heroes, Matt Dillon and Paladin. In January the talk is of Superbowl. In October, baseball. Say what you will, but only Americans could so skillfully build instant bridges among the classes, bind together diversity.
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  5. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    He believed in mission. But . . . he did not believe in it as an intellectual imperative, or even as a professional standard. Mission . . . was an abstract notion that took meaning in concrete situations.
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  6. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases, a soldier was generally called by the name he preferred, or by what he called himself, and no great effort was made to disentangle Christian names from surnames from nicknames.
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  7. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to speak, only those few items that he is predisposed to register and not a single thing more. Do you understand this? So I am saying to you that after a battle each soldier will have different stories to tell, vastly different stories, and that when a was is ended it is as if there have been a million wars, or as many wars as there were soldiers.
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  8. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    He thought about the difference between good times and bad times, and how funny it was that he could not state the difference, only feel it.
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  9. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    He showed me how...See, he says he's going up through Laos, then into Burma, and then some other country, I forget, and then India and Iran and Turkey, and then Greece, and the rest is easy. That's what he said. The rest is easy, he said.
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  10. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    Peace never bragged. If you didn't look for it, it wasn't there.
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  11. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.
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  12. Tim O'Brien _ Going After Cacciato

    What happened, and what might have happened?
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