. . . when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, … - Tim O'Brien - Quotesmemo.com

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Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable. . . Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.

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Tim O'Brien

. . . when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.

Eye, Eyes, Flat, Kissing, Numbness, Open

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It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

Knowing, Mistake, Reasonable, View, War

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

Facts, Help, Helping, Objectify, Pin, Stories

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

Fiction, Helping, Helps, Lie, Lying, Understand

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.

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I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

Felt, Know, Sometimes, Stories, Truer, Want

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Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable. . . Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.

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My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

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I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

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I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

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I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

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