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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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Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and…
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Nothing is made, nothing disappears. These are the old truths. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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