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-and a true war story will tell the truth about this, though the truth is ugly.

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"In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true" (52)

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true war stories make the stomach believe

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true war stories make the stomach believe

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"Yet even if it did happen—and maybe it did, anything's possible—even then you know it can't be true, because a true war story does not depend upon that kind of truth. Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth" (53).

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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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A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe.

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A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe.

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"you won't believe.""Probably not," I said."You won't. And you know why?" He gave me a long, tired smile."Because it happened. Because every word is absolutely dead-on true." (46)

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"you won't believe.""Probably not," I said."You won't. And you know why?" He gave me a long, tired smile."Because it happened. Because every word is absolutely dead-on true." (46)

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To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true

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"You can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil."

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"You can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil."

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"A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done." (pg. 43)

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In many cases, a true war story cannot be believed.

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In many cases, a true war story cannot be believed.

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"You can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil."

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"You can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil."

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"It wasn't a war story. It was a love story." (54)

I think this is powerful because the whole story makes it seem that war stories are actually about the war itself, but at the end he explains that they are actually about other things, a deeper meaning that people that weren't involved in a war cant see easily. ex) love, sorrow, sunlight.

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There is no virtue.

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" In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to seperate what happened from what seemed to happen"

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The truths are contradictory. It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty. For all its horror, you can't help but gape at the awful majesty of combat.

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you can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end... not then, not ever.

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You can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end.

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"In any war story, especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen

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"In a true war story nothing is absolutely true"

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" In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth. You can't tease it out. You can't extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning. "

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You can tell a true war story by it's absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

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"In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen."

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A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe.

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Everything talks. Nam- it truly talks. 46

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A true war story is never moral

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In many cases a true war story cannot be believed (pg-44)

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"Which makes the story seem untrue but represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed." 

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"Which makes the story seem untrue but represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed." 

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In many cases, a true war story cannot be believed.

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In many cases, a true war story cannot be believed.

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And then afterward, when you go and tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.

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A true war story is never moral. (42)