Looking for a quote from O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

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In The Things They Carried there is a passage mentioning how certain words like “honor” or “glory” make the narrator feel nervous or uncomfortable. Does anyone know the quote? I’ve googled several variations of search terms and I can’t find it; and alas, I don’t own the book.

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Could it be this?

They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment.

An amazing, harrowing, searing story. Certainly a candidate for the shortest short list of the best American short stories ever. Instant immortality.

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Sorry, I’m an idiot. I should have been clearer.

That’s not it. I meant a quote from the collection of stories under the name “The Things They Carried,” not necessarily the title story. I’m not sure which specific story it’s actually from.

And yes, the title tale is a great story.

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So…nobody?

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Wow. Apparently I was dead wrong and the quote is actually from A Farewell to Arms:

@Ernest Hemingway

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain…abstract words such as glory, honor, courage or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

Sorry about that…

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Thanks to Amazons ability to search through certain books I have found this.

References to honor.

References to glory.

I don’t know if that is what you are looking for.

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Wow. Apparently I was dead wrong and the quote is actually from A Farewell to Arms

Dude. I mean, Dude!