Imagination, like reality, has its limits. Auteur: Tim O'Brien Copy Quote More from Tim O'Brien “It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did …” “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't …” “I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it…” “But this too is true: stories save us.”