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And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body
her life. — Tim O'Brien

It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist! — Jack O'Brien

has become the leading scripting engine in computer games - and not just lightweights: We're looking at World of Warcraft, Lego MindStorms, — Stephen O'Brien

Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous. — Conan O'Brien

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war. — Tim O'Brien

There are only two things you'll ever need to know about me, Farin - and you should know them well. I'm very smart, and I'm very rich. — Heather O'Brien

He's amazing. He's a different kind of saint, maybe a tougher kind than the Pope. — Michael D. O'Brien

Ow, ow, ow, Billy hurt! Billy wanna go home! — Michael D. O'Brien

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head. — Tim O'Brien

On way to get rid of weight is to leave it on the plate. — Terry O'Brien

So Loki
(the god of being a needless prick all the time) — Cory O'Brien

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country. — Ed O'Brien

It's rumored that Arnold Schwarzenegger's son is cheating on his girlfriend Miley Cyrus. After hearing about it Arnold said, 'That's my boy.' — Conan O'Brien

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye. — Edna O'Brien

It ain't a crapshoot unless you write crap. — Jonathan O'Brien

Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love. — Michael O'Brien

For me, the way to approach a subject such as Vietnam is through storytelling. — Tim O'Brien

They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak. — Tim O'Brien

Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best. — Conan O'Brien

But which of us can hope to probe with questioning finger the dim thoughts that flit in a fool's head? — Flann O'Brien

So many that had died on the scaffold and many more to die including, though she did not know it then, her own son. — Edna O'Brien

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face. — Conan O'Brien

Lot of Irish in Mexico. The Mexican name, Obregon? It comes from O'Brien. — John Sandford

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews. — Kate O'Brien

Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math. — Conan O'Brien

Dionysus the god of drinking so hard you wake up with TWO hangovers and then they FIGHT. — Cory O'Brien

Happy Cinco de Mayo! It's a holiday that's as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center's Mexican food pavilion. — Conan O'Brien

We should not sleep to recover the energy expended when awake but rather wake occasionally to defecate the unwanted energy that sleep engenders. — Flann O'Brien

Over-thinking in your brain is anathema to the process of thinking on your feet. — Conan O'Brien

It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good. — Conan O'Brien

Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think. — Darcy O'Brien

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us? — Soledad O'Brien

Money was never a problem, passports were never required. There were always new places to dance. — Tim O'Brien

Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts. — Edna O'Brien

I hated him for making me stop hating him — Tim O'Brien

Hillary Clinton is now driving from New York to Iowa. It's been called the least-exciting spring break trip in history. — Conan O'Brien

What matters is the imaginative truth. — Edna O'Brien

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask. — Richard O'Brien

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead. — Tim O'Brien

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy. — Keith O'Brien

His love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. — Tim O'Brien

But this too is true: stories save us. — Tim O'Brien

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life. — Ed O'Brien

There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games. — Edna O'Brien

I'll say I'm happy doing my thing. No one says 'no comment' anymore. — Conan O'Brien

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. — Tim O'Brien

Once someone's dead you can't make them undead. — Tim O'Brien

Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them. — Richard O'Brien

Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up. — Edna O'Brien

Happy Christmas" was their version of "Merry Christmas," and a better version, it seemed to him, for making merry was different from making happiness. — Michael D. O'Brien

I have tried, of course, to be faithful to the evidence. Yet evidence is not truth. It is only evident. — Tim O'Brien

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage. — Keith O'Brien

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty. — Keith O'Brien

Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that. — Richard O'Brien

They're convinced that the more conservative you are the more orthodox you are. They're more Catholic than the Pope. — Michael D. O'Brien

Discovering and fulfilling your personal destiny is life's ultimate challenge and its greatest reward. — Paul O'Brien

The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone. — Tim O'Brien

We'll find new stuff to want. — Tim O'Brien

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career — Conan O'Brien

A study in the Washington Post says that women have
better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the
authors of that study: 'Duh. — Conan O'Brien

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. — Tim O'Brien

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little. — Dan O'Brien

Don't we all hope to die with a smile on our faces? — Jeff O'Brien

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert. — Edna O'Brien

I'm a big root beer guy. — Dylan O'Brien

Real love is a long apprenticeship. — Michael D. O'Brien

Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream. — Conan O'Brien

So the moral of the story
is that God hates vegetarians. — Cory O'Brien

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice. — Mike O'Brien

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake. — Tim O'Brien

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world ... are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver. — Alan Brien

'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him. — Conan O'Brien

sharing memories, while making new ones in each other's company. — Gail O'Brien

Sure I care about it, just not enough to play cards with my integrity as a poker chip. — Michael D. O'Brien

And now it is time for a final act of courage. I urge you: March proudly into your own dream. — Tim O'Brien

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it. — Tim O'Brien

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'. — Flann O'Brien

We love the night and it's quiet. — Fitz-James O'Brien

Always zig when people expect you to zag. Confound them! — Soledad O'Brien

Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop. — Flann O'Brien

If you never give up, you'll be successful. — Dan O'Brien

Keep cool my babies. — Conan O'Brien

It's filled with ... baking soda. Because it really smells. — Kate O'Brien

My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts. — Edna O'Brien

There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right? — Conan O'Brien

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. — Edna O'Brien

NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in. — Conan O'Brien

I have an abacus at home. — Conan O'Brien

My whole life seemed to spill out into the river, swirling away from me, everything I had ever been or ever wanted to be. — Tim O'Brien

This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don't be afraid of that. — Dylan O'Brien

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV. — Ed O'Brien

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over. — Tim O'Brien

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world. — Tim O'Brien

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror. — Flann O'Brien

What happened, and what might have happened? — Tim O'Brien

Writing is like carrying a fetus. — Edna O'Brien

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open. — Edna O'Brien

Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational. — Michael D. O'Brien

Taco Bell is going to start selling nachos and chicken nuggets wrapped in a tortilla. In other words, thank God we're going to keep Obamacare. — Conan O'Brien

But this too is true: stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien