12 Quotes by Tim O'Brien about Stories

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    In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

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    I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

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    [Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

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