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A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.

Tim O'Brien

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Die Verpflichtung eines Schriftstellers ist es, zu erfinden: über das hinauszugehen, was geschehen ist, und schauen, was hätte passieren können, aber nicht getan haben. Romanschriftsteller sind geborene Lügner.

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