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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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Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always…
— Julian of Norwich
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Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
— Ismail Merchant
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In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between…
— Izumi Shikibu
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...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he…
— Amitav Ghosh
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Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the…
— Tabitha Suzuma
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They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their…
— Tim O'Brien
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Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.
— Luanne Rice
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