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Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Every How is carried by a What.

I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.