"The thing about a story is that you……" — Tim O'Brien
"The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness."
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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…
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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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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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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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Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted…
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When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is…
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Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes,…
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Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come,…
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I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself…
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