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Tim O'Brien Quotes

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Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien

Birthname

AKA Timothy O'Brien

Nationality United Kingdom

Occupations Costume Designer, Designer

Total quotes (4)

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Lies Truth Reality

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I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Survival alive Misery

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You're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

alive dead danger

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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 are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Stories Past Future Memories

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Related quotes to Tim O'Brien tagged Lies, Truth, Memories

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

— Holly Black, White Cat (The Curse Workers)

Lies Honesty Desire

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Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

— Aesop, A Quote by Aesop

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People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.

— Tammara Webber, Easy (Contours of the Heart)

Unsaid feeling Dishonesty Lies

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He doesn't realize that every time he lies, he's committing suicide in front of me. He's killing everything I see in him.

— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved

Love Heartbreak Lies liars

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Words don’t hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

— Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

Words Pain Lies

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Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.

— George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)

Eyes Lies Seeing the truth Thinking

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You know, sometimes when you’re too close to someone, it’s hard to see who they really are.

— Kirsten Miller, The Eternal Ones

Closeness Two-Faced hypocrite Lies

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You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to.

— Pink Floyd, Dogs (Animals)

trusted People Lies

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The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling

Deceit Lies Memories

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Eyes are distracting. You see too much. You don’t see enough.

— Will Graham

Distraction Lies Pretention

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Terry: Or is your favorite artist really Taylor Swift?

Peralta: [Scoffs] No.

Technician: Lie.

Peralta: Allright fine. She is. She makes me feels things.

— Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 1: Unsolvable

Taylor Swift Lies Feelings Songs Hits

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Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

— Claude Debussy, The Life of the Creative Spirit

Art Lies beauty Creativity Painting

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People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

— Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

People lying Lies Motives

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My roots are not my chains.

— Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

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Everyone always says you have to be strong and have a stiff upper lip, but it’s okay to be fragile.

— Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-Glass

Advices Lies Being Weak fragile

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When a liar gets caught in a lie, they don’t come clean. They build a bigger lie.

— Pete / Marius Josipovic (Giovanni Ribisi), Sneaky Pete, Season 1: Pilot

Lies Pathological Liars

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As my mom used to say, 'When you're doing a puzzle, it's like you've got a thousand friends.' She was full of fun lies like that.

— Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik), The Big Bang Theory, Season 7: The Scavenger Vortex

Mom Puzzle Friends Fun Lies

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Trust had little to do with lies.
It's about opening your heart
and handing over the keys.
Who will lock eyes
with your demons
and declare them human?

— M.Hollow (@miahollow), Mia Hollow Instagram

Trust Lies lying Relationships Opening Up

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There's no beauty in your truth because there's no truth in your beauty.

— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You and Only You

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Being insincere. Saying things for the sake of it and wheeling out the same old compliments that you do for every person that you approach are likely to be seen through.

— NATALIE, Flirting Mistakes

Flirting Mistakes Insincere Lies

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Someone said to me, 'You’re too pretty to be single.' I said, 'No, I’m too pretty to be lied to, cheated on, and played with.'

— Anxiety, via twitter.com

Cheating Pretty Lies

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