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Own 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…
- You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and…
- He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was…
- In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes…
- I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take…
- By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes…
- 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…
- Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?
- Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.
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