Tim O'Brien Quotes About Lying

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Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
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It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.
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Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
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Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.
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Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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