A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
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Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.
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...
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you s...
One morning in Saigon she'd asked what it was all about 'This whole war,' she said, 'why was everybody so mad at everybody else?'I shook my head. 'They weren't mad exactly. Some people wanted one thin...
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
If you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth; if you don’t care for the truth, watch how you vote.
In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to speak, only those few items...
The things they carried were determined to some extent by superstition.
I was a coward. I went to the war.
It occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separ...
He felt crazy sometimes. Real depravity. Late at night an electric sizzle came into his blood, a tight pumped-up killing rage, and he couldn't keep it in and he couldn't let it out. He wanted to hurt...
They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often,
What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. […]And afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue,...
It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero.
How crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead
Proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life.
For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracti...
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried. In
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