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I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

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Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

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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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