Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.

Tim O'Brien

Mots clés hindsight

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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 remember.

Tim O'Brien

Mots clés brotherhood

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Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.

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But in a story, which is a type of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

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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 story nothing is ever absolutely true.

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And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

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But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Tim O'Brien

Mots clés forgetting remembering

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A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.

Tim O'Brien

Mots clés writing on-fiction fiction

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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Tim O'Brien

Mots clés truth lies writing on-fiction fiction

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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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