The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake. — Tim O'Brien Awake Copy Share Image
A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards. — Tim O'Brien Life Copy Share Image
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write. — Tim O'Brien Easier Copy Share Image
I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy. — Tim O'Brien All day Copy Share Image
“Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.” — Tim O'Brien Quiet man Copy Share Image
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. — Tim O'Brien Around Copy Share Image
“The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over.” — Tim O'Brien Bad stuff Copy Share Image
He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse.… — Tim O'Brien Erase Copy Share Image
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. — Tim O'Brien Lying Copy Share Image
[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. — Tim O'Brien Absolutes Copy Share Image
“He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the… — Tim O'Brien Experience Copy Share Image
The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over. — Tim O'Brien Bad stuff Copy Share Image
When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. — Tim O'Brien Afraid Copy Share Image
“I learned that words make a difference. It's easier to cope with a kicked bucked than a corpse; if it isn't human,… — Tim O'Brien Bucked Corpse Copy Share Image
“The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to… — Tim O'Brien Creativity Copy Share Image
“He showed me how...See, he says he's going up through Laos, then into Burma, and then some other country, I forget, and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Oh, man, you fuckin' trashed the fucker," Azar said. " You scrambled his sorry self, look at that, you did, you laid… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“He believed in mission. But . . . he did not believe in it as an intellectual imperative, or even as a… — Tim O'Brien Goals Copy Share Image
“A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases,… — Tim O'Brien War Copy Share Image
“Looking back after twenty years, I sometimes wonder if the events of that summer didn’t happen in some other dimension, a place… — Tim O'Brien Life Copy Share Image
“Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first… — Tim O'Brien Dreams Copy Share Image
“CEASE FIRE,' Captain Johansen shouted. 'Cease fire, what's wrong with you guys? Stop wasting the goddamn ammo. CEASE FIRE!' Cease fire,' the… — Tim O'Brien Chain of command Copy Share Image
“I drank some chocolate milk and then lay down on the sofa in my “living” room, not really sad, just floating; trying… — Tim O'Brien Chocolate milk Copy Share Image
They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp… — Tim O'Brien Alternatives Copy Share Image
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will… — Tim O'Brien Books Copy Share Image
“I remember Mitchell Sanders sitting quietly in the shade of an old banyan tree. He was using a thumbnail to pry off… — Tim O'Brien History Copy Share Image
“My heart tells me to stop right here, to offer quiet benediction and call it the end. But the truth won't allow… — Tim O'Brien Day by day Copy Share Image
Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love… — Tim O'Brien Adults Copy Share Image
“It was a brisk, polite town. It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know. Norman Bowker leaned… — Tim O'Brien Smell Copy Share Image
“Why do we care about Lizzie Borden, or Judge Crater, or Lee Harvey Oswald, or the Little Big Horn? Mystery! Because of… — Tim O'Brien God knows Copy Share Image
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