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Tim O'Brien
October 1, 1946
Born in Austin, Minnesota
National Book Award winning novelist associated with the Vietnam War. I've read precisely one of his books, so I don't feel qualified to offer a definitive opinion on O'Brien and his place in the pantheon of American writers. If you have a more detailed assesment of Tim O'Brien's work, please send it via the comment function at the end of the O'Brien bibliography.
Quote
"Stories are for joining the past to the future."
Off-Site Resource
The Official Tim O'Brien Website
Bibliography
Fiction
Northern Lights - 1975
Going After Cacciato - 1978
Nuclear Age - 1985
The Things They Carried - 1990 (short stories)
In the Lake of the Woods - 1994
Tomcat in Love - 1998
July, July - 2002
Nonfiction
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home - 1973
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Great Quotations
- Jack London on the advantages of not being a cabbage
Author's Name Jack London Type of Quote Animals
Change"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better." - Edith Wharton on Secrets and Age
Author's Name Edith Wharton He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an imperturbed spirit. He did not want the secrets of other lives thrust upon him. - Edith Wharton on Weddings
Author's Name Edith Wharton She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. Nice thing for a woman to say to her husband! - James Tiptree, Jr., (Alice B. Sheldon)
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.
- Truman Capote
Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves.
- Jack London
"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
- Donald Westlake
"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."
- John Gregory Dunne
"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
- G.K. Chesterton
"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"It is like two bald men fighting over a comb."
Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war.
- Stephen King
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