"Imagination, like reality, has its limits." — Tim O'Brien

Imagination, like reality, has its limits. - Tim O'Brien

"Imagination, like reality, has its limits."

— Tim O'Brien

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87 Quotes by Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
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,…

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More Imagination Quotes

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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because… — David Bailey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction… — J. G. Ballard
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana

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