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Truth Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
- A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
- Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
- 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…
- In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war…
- A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
- I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.
- 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…
- It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would…
- 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?'…
- If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.
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