“I’m not dead. But when I am, it’s like . . . I don’t know, I guess it’s like being inside a… — Tim O'Brien Book Copy Share Image
What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood… — Tim O'Brien Behinds Copy Share Image
“And now it is time for a final act of courage. I urge you: March proudly into your own dream.” — Tim O'Brien Courage Copy Share Image
Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to… — Tim O'Brien After death Copy Share Image
“One morning in Saigon she'd asked what it was all about 'This whole war,' she said, 'why was everybody so mad at… — Tim O'Brien War Copy Share Image
“Because it's all relative. You're pinned down in some filthy hellhole of a paddy, getting your ass delivered to kingdom come, but… — Tim O'Brien Peace Copy Share Image
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. — Tim O'Brien Around Copy Share Image
“when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix… — Tim O'Brien Confidence Copy Share Image
“the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By… — Tim O'Brien Writing Copy Share Image
“It had nothing to do with morality. Embarrassment, that’s all it was. And right then I submitted. I would go to the… — Tim O'Brien Shame 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
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
("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes -… — Tim O'Brien Answers Copy Share Image
“It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the… — Tim O'Brien Author Copy Share Image
“All around me the options seemed to be narrowing, as if I were hurtling down a huge black funnel, the whole world… — Tim O'Brien Whole world Copy Share Image
“Her white skin and those dark brown eyes and the way she always smiled at the world - always, it seemed -… — Tim O'Brien Brown eyes Copy Share Image
The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake. — Tim O'Brien Awake Copy Share Image
“Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love. And it was real. When I write about her now,… — Tim O'Brien Children Copy Share Image
In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that… — Tim O'Brien Safe Copy Share Image
you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the… — Tim O'Brien Care Copy Share Image
“You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind… — Tim O'Brien Behind Every Copy Share Image
“It is easy, of course, to fear happiness. There is often complacency in the acceptance of misery. We fear parting from our… — Tim O'Brien Fear Copy Share Image
“How crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead” — Tim O'Brien Night-life 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
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