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Author - Tim O'Brien
Quotes by : Tim O'Brien
ping pong
On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.....
death
You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid....
vietnam
It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,....
stories
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.....
fear
With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.
war
In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier....
imagination
Imagination, like reality, has its limits.
letters
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College....
honesty
I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism,....
drama
But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible....
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