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My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and…
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But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
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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.
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It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect,…
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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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All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
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Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
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you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the…
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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…
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Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
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I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we…
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Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting,…
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I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people…
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
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There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a…
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All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all…
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Imagination, like reality, has its limits.
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I've heard a lot of really awful, negative things said about Pete, and it's like, Dude, you don't even have a clue…
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