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Tell Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you…
- The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in…
- In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes…
- [Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.
- Let the story tell itself.
- You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?'…
- Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is…
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