War Story Quotes

8 quotes by 2 authors

• 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… — Tim O'Brien
• 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… — Tim O'Brien
• And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads… — Tim O'Brien
• 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… — Tim O'Brien
• [Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. — Tim O'Brien
• I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a… — Tim O'Brien
• 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?'… — Tim O'Brien
• I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war… — Catherynne M. Valente

Who Wrote These War Story Quotes

2 authors contributed a total of 8 War Story Quotes as follows:

• 7 War Story Quotes by Tim O'Brien
• 1 War Story Quote by Catherynne M. Valente