"Let the story tell itself." — Tim O'Brien

"Let the story tell itself."

— 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…
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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