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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.
• you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the…
• The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with…
• But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
• A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
• And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way…
• In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems…
• Let the story tell itself.

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