"Everything was such a damned nice idea when…" — Tim O'Brien

"Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea."

— Tim O'Brien

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87 Quotes by Tim O'Brien

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My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living…
But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to…
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is…
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care…
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream…
I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same…
Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin,…
In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to…

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More Damned Quotes

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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. — Paul Cezanne
You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both.… — Jennifer Aniston
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them… — Charles Spurgeon
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a… — John Aubrey
Golf always makes me so damned angry. — George V
O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of… — Brigit of Kildare
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very… — Dick Cheney

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