"Stories are for joining the past to the……" — Tim O'Brien
"Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story."
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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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Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
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The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted.
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All bad memories erased! Now you can make new ones-good memories.
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The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable,…
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased
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My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange…
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The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased…
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The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's…
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
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If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that…
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