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From Quotes by 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…
- In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes…
- By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes…
- First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters,…
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