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War Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed…
- you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you…
- In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war…
- 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…
- 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…
- [Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.
- 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…
- You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?'…
- I was a coward. I went to the war.
- 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…
More War Quotes
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- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare