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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…
• But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
• That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
• It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect,…
• A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
• All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
• 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…
• The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with…
• Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
• 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…
• 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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