"In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen."

-- Tim O'Brien

#War Quotes #Stories Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I close my eyes, hoping to slip into the same dream again, but then that never happens, does it?”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2010). “Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West”, p.486, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?”
“Good books are for consideration after, too.”
“I can't die now, I have so much work to do.”
“If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, when you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don't give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.”
“Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that youâ€™ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.”
“I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.”
“People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women having sex. Our generation defines it from a more emotional standpoint. To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. But it's a part of who you are, an identity, not an act.”

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