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And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe Oh. — Tim O'Brien

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

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration. — Tim O'Reilly

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story. — Tim O'Brien

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. — Tim 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

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

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is. — Tim O'Brien

I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so. — Tim O'Brien

I showed up in October 1946, part of an early surge that would become a great nationwide baby boom. My sister Kathy was born a year later. — Tim O'Brien

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief. — Tim O'Reilly

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain. — Tim O'Brien

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

Let the story tell itself. — Tim O'Brien

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. — Tim O'Reilly

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

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life. — Tim Blake Nelson

That you don't make war without knowing why. — Tim O'Brien

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing. — Tim O'Brien

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. — Tim O'Reilly

There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can't possibly get to these and do what they do best. — Tim O'Reilly

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is. — Tim O'Reilly

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with. — Tim O'Reilly

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past. — Tim O'Reilly

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that. — Tim O'Brien

I think I'm a pretty moral guy, a very moral guy, but I'm not perfect. — Tim O'Brien

[O]nce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like. — Tim Minchin

Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved. — Tim O'Brien

In a war without aim, you tend not to aim. You close your eyes, close your heart. The consequences become hit or miss in the most literal sense. — Tim O'Brien

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back. — Tim O'Brien

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it. — Tim O'Reilly

We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people. — Tim O'Reilly

No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry. — Tim O'Reilly

We tend to regard history as true and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as untrue. That's always puzzled me. — Tim O'Brien

Do you know what vengence is, Tim? It is a dark mirror in which we cannot see ourselves. — Patrick O'Leary

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously. — Tim O'Brien

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly

And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. — Tim O'Brien

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. — Tim O'Brien

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away. — Tim O'Reilly

Peace never bragged. If you didn't look for it, it wasn't there. — Tim O'Brien

I can promise you, Potter, that there is nothing you could ever do that would excite me. — Tim O'Rourke

It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner — Tim O'Reilly

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie! — Robert Burns

Architecture trumps licensing any time. — Tim O'Reilly

A true war story is never moral. — Tim O'Brien

How crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead — Tim O'Brien

What is love, for God's sake, if not the most distilled obsession? — Tim O'Brien

In a way I wanted to stop myself. It was cruel, I knew that, but right and wrong were somewhere else. — Tim O'Brien

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do. — Tim O'Brien

We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination. — Tim O'Reilly

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it. — Tim O'Brien

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried. — Tim O'Brien

Proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life. — Tim O'Brien

Who has the data has the power. — Tim O'Reilly

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

Imagination is a killer. — Tim O'Brien

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

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

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange. — Tim O'Reilly

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

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

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

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

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

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. — Tim O'Brien

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity. — Tim O'Reilly

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

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

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

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

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

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead. — Tim O'Brien

Can a word stop your heart as surely as arsenic? — Tim O'Brien

But in a story I can steal her soul. — Tim O'Brien

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son. — Tim O'Brien

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads? — Tim 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

Regardless of religion (or lack thereof), lovers of speculative fiction will swallow up these provocative stories. - Erin O'Riordan, — Tim Lieder

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military. — Tim O'Brien

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. — Tim O'Brien

Zapped while zipping. — Tim O'Brien

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor. — Tim O'Brien

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars. — Tim O'Brien

Sometimes the bravest thing in the world was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones. — Tim O'Brien

A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards. — Tim O'Brien

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. — Tim O'Reilly

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage. — Tim O'Brien

He hated her. Yes, he did. He hated her. Love, too, but it was a hard, hating kind of love. — Tim O'Brien

To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story. — Tim O'Brien

Words, too, have genuine substance
mass and weight and specific gravity. — Tim O'Brien

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to. — Tim O'Reilly

She'd say amazing things sometimes. "Once you're alive," she'd say, "you cant ever be dead. — Tim O'Brien

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term. — Tim O'Reilly