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“ It’s a powerful moment, when you discover a vocabulary exists for something you’d thought incommunicably unique. Personally, I felt it reading Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim.” I have friends who’ve found themselves described in everything from science fiction to detective novels. This self-recognition through others is not simply a by-product of art — it’s the whole point. ”

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I've worked hard to remember it...The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm sure of my bright light.

~ Phil Klay

Phil Klay Explosion Ied Memory Survivor War

And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it's good.

~ Phil Klay

Phil Klay Deployment Drowning Homecoming Hurt Iraq Marines Redeployment War

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

~ Phil Klay

Phil Klay War Suffering Ugly

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

~ Phil Klay

Phil Klay Integrity Home Great