Great Quotes #65: Tim O'Brien

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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

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     7 years ago 

    They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

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    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 to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

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    A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

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    A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. 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 salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

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    The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.

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    But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

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    They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

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    You're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

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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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    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 despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

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