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People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#constantly #diaries #did #experience #found

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#countries #each #occurred #other #two

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#another #best #book #done #happened

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#blamed #fighting #man #men #never

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#before #behind #changes #die #enter

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#another #closing #door #even #feeling

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#changes #deny #only #own #possible

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#middle #middle age #own #perceptions #their

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#cooking #go #men #pieces #reach

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#again #deal #failure #first #how