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Absolute Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- [Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.
- For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd…
- You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?'…
More Absolute Quotes
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir
- It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he… — James Petigru Boyce
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is… — Henry David Thoreau
- It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully… — Charles Darwin
- I have absolute faith that anything can come to one who trusts to the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that is… — Walter Russell
- Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute. — Hassan Nasrallah