I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' because it really is above and beyond what we expected. Writers like (Kurt) Vonnegut and Tim O'Brien waited years after their service to write their books. There's an immediacy and rawness to this book that makes it so compelling.
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And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they could all have somebody to tell stories around the campfire at night, and somebody else to paint pictures on the walls of caves, and somebody else who wasn't afraid of anything and so on.
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When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.
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Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
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And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
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You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each square are the words, 'I love you.' And each passer-by, no matter who, gets a square all his or her own. I don't want my square of toilet paper.'I didn't realize it toilet paper.
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
In this world, you get what you pay for.
The unity in every second of all time and all wandering mankind, all wandering womankind, all wandering children.
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