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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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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
— Andre Gide
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When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the…
— Robert Bringhurst
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The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater... The word "Art" should be written…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve…
— William Goyen
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I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point…
— Laura Marling
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And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an…
— Jack Kerouac
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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
— Tim O'Brien
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If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.
— Audrey Hepburn
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You said we've got a new page. I figure I've got some say in what gets written on it. So I'm going…
— Nora Roberts
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History gets written by the winners...
— Cassandra Clare
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