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Human Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own…
- A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders,…
- I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping…
- It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis…
- We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those…
- The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the…
- Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin