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And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.

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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

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You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

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Stories are for joining the past to the future.

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Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

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What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

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…he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to k...more

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What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I ...more

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Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

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I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap...more

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Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story,...more

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That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.