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Tim O'Brien has 86 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and…
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But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
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It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect,…
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
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All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
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Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
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you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the…
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The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with…
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Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
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I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we…
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Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting,…
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The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream
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I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.
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If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start…
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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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