"I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't……" — Tim O'Brien
"I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember."
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87 Quotes by Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien has 87 quotes on this site.
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My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living…
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But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to…
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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
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It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is…
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
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All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
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Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
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you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care…
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The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream…
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Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
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Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin,…
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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
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My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids.…
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
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Muslims should live like brothers.
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I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
— Honore de Balzac
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective…
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
— Charles Baudelaire
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