Just 3 Quotes: In Memoriam
05.31.2021
3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.
—Mark
—“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?”
—“Of course. Who said it?”
—“I don’t know.”
—“He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them.”
—“I don’t know. It’s hard to see inside the head of the brave.”
—“Yes. That’s how they keep that way.”
—A Farewell To Arms, by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
—The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien (1990)
“It seemed obvious that their former hopes, their warlike dreams, their constant waiting for the enemy had been no more than a pretext to give life some significance.”
—The Tartar Steppe, by Dino Buzzati (1940)