- Nov 07, 2020
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried network correspondents. They're young freelancers. They're kind of a cheap date for the news industry.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?
- Get Married
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope I get married one day.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020