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> [“Don’t talk about shit you don’t know, Billy thinks, and therein lies the dynamic of all such encounters, the Bravos speak from the high ground of experience. They are authentic. They are the Real. They have dealt much death and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/don-t-talk-about-shit-you-don-t-know-billy-thinks-and-therein-lies/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

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> [“If ever there was a prime-time trigger for PTSD you couldn't do much better than this, but lucky for Norm, the crowd, America, the forty-million-plus TV viewing audience, Bravos can deal, oh yes! Pupils dilated, pulse and blood pressure through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/if-ever-there-was-a-prime-time-trigger-for-ptsd-you-couldn-t-do-much/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

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## Other authors on Bravo

## More by Ben Fountain

> [“The singing triggers a soft detonation at his core, molten parts of him are flying everywhere and his ears ring to the tune of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/the-singing-triggers-a-soft-detonation-at-his-core-molten-parts-of/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [“Even harder was describing his sense that Shroom’s death might have ruined him for anything else, because when he died? when I felt his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/even-harder-was-describing-his-sense-that-shroom-s-death-might-have/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [“Without ever exactly putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is standard trajectory. Something new appears in the world—a baby,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/without-ever-exactly-putting-his-mind-to-it-he-s-come-to-believe-that/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [“But I am scared. Everybody's scared." "You know what I mean, like scared scared. Like coward scared, like if you never went to begin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/but-i-am-scared-everybody-s-scared-you-know-what-i-mean-like-scared/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [“God knows the war sucks, but he sees no great appeal in these tepid peacetime lives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/god-knows-the-war-sucks-but-he-sees-no-great-appeal-in-these-tepid/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [“What he'd like to say is that he's lived it, if not the entire breadth and depth of the Christian faith then certainly the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/what-he-d-like-to-say-is-that-he-s-lived-it-if-not-the-entire-breadth/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/by-the-end-of-the-first-decade-of-writing-i-considered-myself-a/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/i-started-publishing-stories-in-small-magazines-early-on-but-after/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [“I think sometimes nothing is better than something. I mean, I’d rather have nothing than let this guy use me like his bitch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/i-think-sometimes-nothing-is-better-than-something-i-mean-i-d-rather/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [“No it was my choice. It's what I wanted to do. And I knew they'd probably send me to Iraq. It's not like anybody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/no-it-was-my-choice-it-s-what-i-wanted-to-do-and-i-knew-they-d/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/it-s-amazing-what-happens-when-you-stick-yourself-in-a-place-and-let/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [“As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/as-if-sorrow-is-the-true-reality-without-ever-putting-his-mind-to-it/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [If you want to see a bunch of happy Americans, go out to opening day at any baseball stadium in the land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/if-you-want-to-see-a-bunch-of-happy-americans-go-out-to-opening-day/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/there-was-no-such-thing-as-perfection-in-this-world-only-moments-of/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

> [“He decides he wants both more and less. He’d like to hang out with Beyonce in a nice way, get to know her by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/he-decides-he-wants-both-more-and-less-he-d-like-to-hang-out-with/)

[Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/)

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