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  1. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Beautiful Struggle: A

    Dylan's voice was awful, an aged quaver that sounded nothing like the deep-throated or silky R&B that Dad took as gospel. But the lyrics wore him down, until he played Dylan in that addicted manner of college kids who cordon off portions of their lives to decipher the prophecies of their favorite band. Dad heard poetry, but more than that an angle that confirmed what a latent part of him already suspected. This was was bullshit.
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  2. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    Они несли собственные жизни. На них чудовищно давили погода и стресс. На послеполуденной жаре они снимали каски и бронежилеты, шли налегке, что было опасно, но помогало сбросить напряжение. Часто на марше они от чего-то избавлялись. Удобства ради, они выкидывали сухие пайки, подрывали гранаты и «клейморы» - наплевать, ведь к ночи вертолеты привезут еще, а потом пару дней спустя еще и еще: свежие арбузы и ящики с боеприпасами, солнечными очками и шерстяными свитерами… Неистощимость ресурсов поражала: фейерверки на четвертое июля, крашеные яйца на Пасху. Это же великий американский военный бюджет: дары науки и конвейеров, консервных заводов и арсеналов Хартфорда, лесов Миннесоты и бескрайних полей пшеницы и кукурузы… Всё это они несли, как грузовые поезда. Они несли это на своих спинах и плечах, и при всех двусмысленностях Вьетнама, при всех его загадках и переменных, неизменно оставалась как минимум одна непреложная истина: им вечно будет что нести.
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  3. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.
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  4. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.
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  5. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
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  6. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    Stories are for joining the past to the future.
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  7. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.
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  8. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    Stories can save us.
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  9. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever.
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  10. Martha Gellhorn _ The Face of War

    The fear syndrome {a species of propaganda}, by exaggerating Vietcong power for destruction, misplaces the real pain of the real war, and is immensely dangerous. It leads to hysteria, to hawk-demands for a bigger war; it pushes us nearer and nearer to World War Three. The fear syndrome in no way serves the American cause; it can only jeopardize more American lives, with the ultimate risk of jeopardizing all life.
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  11. Tim O'Brien _ The Things They Carried

    But this too is true: stories can save us.
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  12. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    In September 1973, a former government official in Laos, Jerome Doolittle, wrote in the New York Times:The Pentagon's most recent lies about bombing Cambodia bring back a question that often occurred to me when I was press attache at the American Embassy in Vietnam, Laos.Why did we bother to lie?When I first arrived in Laos, I was instructed to answer all press questions about our massive and merciless bombing campaign in that tiny country with: "At the request of the Royal Laotian Government, The United States is conducting unarmed reconnaissance flights accompanied by armed escorts who have the right to return if fired upon."This was a lie. Every reporter to whom I told knew it was a lie. Hanoi knew it was a lie. The International Control Commission knew it was a lie. . . . After all , the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us."
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