Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. - Tim O'Brien

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Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

Tim O'Brien

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

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It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

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By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

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Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

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What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.

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I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

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