American - Author | October 1, 1946 -
Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.
Tim O'Brien
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I think I'm a pretty moral guy, a very moral guy, but I'm not perfect.
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You don't have to be in Nam to be in Nam.
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Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering.
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At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.
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War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
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Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.
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A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.
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The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year-old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow.
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