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Tim O'Brien
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Timothy O'Brien
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Costume Designer,
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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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Tim O'Brien
,
The Things They Carried
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I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
—
Tim O'Brien
,
The Things They Carried
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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
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You're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
—
Tim O'Brien
,
The Things They Carried
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