The Things They Carried Emotional Burden Quotes

#1. A poor relation - is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

Charles Lamb

#2. To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

Malcolm McLaren

#3. Wonderland was wonderful, but without a counterbalance, it could turn it's inhabitants completely insane.

Marie Hall

#4. What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#5. You can look at a hundred pictures and a dozen maps, but unless you've been to the city and felt its pulse, you really

Chris Colfer

#6. Talk is cheap and easy; making dreams real takes hard, humble work. Dreams in the Midwest are acceptable, just keep them to yourself. Maybe tell your family, but don't just talk - do something about it.

Peter Jenkins

#7. Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.

Kathryn Prescott

#8. We have always been searching for home. It's in our art ... our religion ... everything.

Richard Blanco

#9. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

Yann Martel

#10. Fear is your sword

Marie Lu

#11. My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up.
- Charley Davidson

Darynda Jones

#12. It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

Jane Birkin

#13. For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

Andrea Barrett