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- author: Tim O'Brien
- content: 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. 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. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a
- first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and
- uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.
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