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" But let me tell you this: sometimes at night, when I look up at the stars, an see the whole sky jus laid out there, don’t you think I ain’t rememberin it all. I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been. An then, all of a sudden, I’m forty, fifty, sixty years ole, you know? "
― Winston Groom , Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)
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" He unbutton his jacket an inside, on his shirt, is all his medals—Purple Heart, Silver Star—must of been ten or twelve of them. “They remind me of somethin,” he said. “I’m not quite sure what—the war, of course, but that’s jus a part of it. I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It’s my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now—medals where my soul used to be. "
― Winston Groom , Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)
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" out that the shootin is comin from in front of us, meanin that the gooks is in between us an our own position. In other words, we is out here alone. Sooner or later, he says, if the gooks do not overrun Charlie Company, they will come back this way, an if they find us here, they will not like it one bit. Point is, we got to move our asses. We get our shit together an begin to work back towards the ridge, but as we do, Doyle suddenly look down off our right to the bottom of the saddle an he see an entire busload of new gooks, armed to the teeth, movin up the hill towards Charlie Company. Best thing we coulda done then was to try an make friends with em an forget all this other shit, but that were not in the cards. So we jus hunkered down in some big ole shrubs an waited till they got to the top of the hill. Then Bones let loose with the machine gun and he must of kilt ten or fifteen of them gooks right off. Doyle an me an the other two guys is thowin grenades, an things is goin our way until Bones runs out of ammo an need a fresh belt. I feed "
― Winston Groom , Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)
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" Но вот что я вам скажу – по ночам я смотрю в небо, и когда проступают звезды, я вспоминаю все, что было. И я по-прежнему вижу сны, как и все, и
думаю о том, что могло бы быть, если... Ведь скоро мне стукнет сорок, а потом вдруг шестьдесят, понимаете?
И что тут такого? Верно, я идиот, но все-таки, я всегда старался делать все правильно – ведь сны, это всего лишь сны? Так что чтобы там не
случилось, я знаю одно – я всегда могу оглянуться назад и сказать, что я прожил незряшную жизнь.
Вы меня понимаете? "
― Winston Groom , Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)