Tim O'Brien
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BILL BUFORD JEANETTE WINTERSON When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we'r... KARAN MAHAJAN There was almost constant interaction ? mouth-to-mouth interaction, grooming. When we talk about iss... JOSH MILLSPAUGH JESSE VENTURA TIM O'BRIEN It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rathe... PAUL HARRIS THOMAS PIKETTY NEIL GAIMAN LEWIS CARROLL The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination. ENOCH POWELL The key issues in our area are education, education and education, ... I would hope and expect any c... JOE ATKINS REBECCA SOLNIT I hate to use the word 'failure' because, in fact, many of our people really did great stuff. [But] ... JACK MCGUIRE MILTON GLASER Congress has a terrible approval rating, and they need something to avoid talking about the issues t... DAVE NOBLE To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. LEE SMITH DAVID ROBINSON We are trying to show the interconnectedness of women's issues to other issues that campus groups wo... ANNA KASTNER I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on... BRANDY NORWOOD We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Securi... GHOLAMREZA ANSARI We need to talk to our parents about the tough end-of-life issues. Our loved ones probably want to t... CINDY GORDON HARUKI MURAKAMI We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quota... ERIK AUTOR DEYTH BANGER Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do importa... JOHN CLEESE MATTHEW DESMOND We can't continue commenting on matters that are in court. Actually we are concentrating too much on... EDITH NAWAKWI If it's very expensive to get a routine check-up, they tend to skimp on those primary care services ... DEAN SANPEI When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. THE TRUTH You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the... NALO HOPKINSON It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but ... ZOë HELLER Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to. CASEY NEISTAT It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancie... ALLAN HOUSTON TOM WOLFE I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the ... KIRBY BLISS BLANTON ARMISTEAD MAUPIN RICHARD P. FEYNMAN We always talk about Dave Andreychuk, ... but the unsung leader in this room is Tim Taylor. JAY FEASTER The birds tend to be more vocal and active because they're coming into breeding season and it's much... TIM GALLAGHER And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want... EDIE FALCO ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Besides, what matters, when it comes to self-control, isn't so much willpower as vision-the ability ... DANIEL AKST Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes. JEREMY BRETT HELENA BONHAM CARTER LAUREN GROFF The more we talk about issues, the better we are to protect ourselves. It enables us to make more co... ANWAR NASIR I think we're not going to know much about her, and she won't disclose much in her hearings, so once... CHARLES PALMER DIANE ACKERMAN Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science... PHILIP K. DICK SHERWOOD ANDERSON CARLOS CASTANEDA CARLOS CASTANEDA Bad rumors about the danger of consumer products are getting increasingly commonplace, largely becau... ERIC DEZENHALL This practice largely had been corrected by 1997. As we have said in the past, on all regulatory mat... CHRIS WINANS MICHAEL JOHNSON One who discovers a little truth about matters builds an ideal way in confidence on issues of consen... BOAZ AKUDE I have been through about 11 campaigns and they are never over until the campaign day itself ends. A... JIM BRADLEY BOB NELSON If there was a chapter of the ACLU in Collier County, we would be looking at a wide range of issues ... HOWARD SIMON The classic pollution problems of the past are largely gone. Now, we are talking land-use issues. It... CHARLES BOUCHER BRUCE STERLING SIMONE WEIL MARQUIS DE SADE We focus so much on special effects and sound effects that we are shortchanging the audience on stor... BRIAN SKY [In addition, wage increases of between 3 percent and 4 percent have largely been agreed upon, thoug... ERIC RABE MARGOT ROBBIE AMY CHUA Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part o... ALAN LEWIS We are still in too much shock to talk about it. BARBARA MARTIN So many people never find the one, because they are too lazy to work hard on something that will las... PHILIP T. M. Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci... PHILIP K. DICK One's selection of solution on plaguing issues is likely to be best and correct when taken or done o... ANUJ SOMANY SUZE ORMAN We focus sometimes too much on the minimum wage, and we should be talking about living wages and mid... TIM RYAN SUZY KASSEM RICHARD DAWKINS SIMONE WEIL SIMONE WEIL MAXWELL MALTZ MAXWELL MALTZ LACTANTIUS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD PATRICK NESS KEN LIU Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about. HILDEGARD KNEF J. K. ROWLING It is easier to focus on the finished painting rather than stress over every stroke of the brush it ... DONOVAN WILSON So many people never find the one, because they are too lazy to work hard on something that is meant... PHILIP T. M.
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When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to... 
[...] morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [...] it's so much easier to talk about y... 
It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about po... 
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. 
I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They ... 
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just ... 
But this too is true: stories can save us. 
Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a ... 
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are... 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerf... 
We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our... 
Largely in the beginning, I did a lot of extra work because I was lighter than all the other guys. I... 
I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw. 
Don't try to focus in something within itself is a failURE. 
A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ... 
It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to w... 
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get t... 
Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discu... 
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really ... 
I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kin... 
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a na... 
Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have ga... 
The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so ... 
People need to know there are good things happening. Unfortunately, people are going to read about J... 
It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on ch... 
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and h... 
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life. 
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. 
It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on ... 
Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by... 
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big ... 
People nowadays talk about issues as if they’re reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what... 
If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that ther... 
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life 
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act... 
For imagination sets the goal ''picture'' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to... 
Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be... 
It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving. 
There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related t... 
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the in... 
Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life... 
It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. 
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I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. 
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Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my jour... 
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I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Dona... 
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It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there'... 
I kind of struggled as a 10-year-old to make out what it meant that Martin Luther King and Bobby Ken... 
Necessity is the author of change 
I like bothering people and stirring things up. 
I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta. 
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One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a ... 
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The path to wisdom is paved with humility. 
Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. ... 
Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and... 
Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today. 
It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of bei... 
We all know interspecies romance is weird. 
Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. 
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. 
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. 
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. 
I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I... 
Telling lies does not work in advertising. 
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to m... 
I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. 
I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. 
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A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty drive... 
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. 
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I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That'... 
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Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential ... 
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America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War. 
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for someb... 