"Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette……" — Tim O'Brien
"Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?"
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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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More Cigarette Quotes
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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care…
— Adele
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Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
— Bill Blass
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In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of…
— Julia Child
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Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
— Tommy Chong
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Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.
— Loni Anderson
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If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
— Loni Anderson
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Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
— Loni Anderson
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Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
— Loni Anderson
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It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.
— Loni Anderson
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My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was…
— Loni Anderson
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I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so…
— Honus Wagner
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The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers…
— Richard Doll
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