"A true war story is never moral… 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… As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. "
— Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried. I have listened to probably a hundred times while I fit it into various programs for my job, and it still hits pretty hard. (via wellofcromulence)
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amsplendor said:
I read this book for a class, and it absolutely changed my life.
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