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Us Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
- 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…
- ("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole…
- 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…
- 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.…
- But this too is true: stories can save us.
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