"There was the single abiding certainty that they……" — Tim O'Brien
"There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry."
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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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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
— Kate Atkinson
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
— Unknown Author
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers -…
— Bob Goodlatte
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world…
— George McGovern
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
— Charlotte Mason
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of…
— Ronald Reagan
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