And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were… - Tim O'Brien
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were…
- Tim O'Brien
I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth. - Tim O'Brien
I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.
War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and … - Tim O'Brien
War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and …
If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth. - Tim O'Brien
If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. - Tim O'Brien
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth. - Tim O'Brien
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. - Tim O'Brien
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been s… - Tim O'Brien
If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been s…
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead. - Tim O'Brien
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
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