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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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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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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
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And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way…
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In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems…
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You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask,…
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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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The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to…
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,…
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A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our…
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Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties
— Alexander MacLaren
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