"I was a coward. I went to the…" — Tim O'Brien
"I was a coward. I went to the war."
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Tim O'Brien
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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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I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same…
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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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More Coward Quotes
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one of 661 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
— Russell Baker
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is…
— John Calvin
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Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
— George W. Bush
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Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
— Julius Caesar
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
— Albert Camus
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I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know…
— Tupac Shakur
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The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
— James Meredith
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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his…
— Cus D'Amato
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No coward soul is mine.
— Emily Bronte
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Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and…
— Tupac Shakur
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