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Love Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
- But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
- And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads…
- ...you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and you are filled…
- A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.
- A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.
- What happened, and what might have happened?
- ...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.
- It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.
- I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
- I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a…
- Let the story tell itself.
- Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.
- Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more,…
- ("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole…
- Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.
- you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
- Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred.…
- They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and…
- First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters,…
- But this too is true: stories can save us.
- Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is…
- Imagination is a killer.
- Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide