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Tim O'Brien
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born
October 01, 1946
in Minnesota
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The Things They Carried
  4.09 avg rating — 53,116 ratings
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1990
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30 editions
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In the Lake of the Woods
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1994
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Going After Cacciato
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1978
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22 editions
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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
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1973
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Tomcat In Love
3.32 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
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1998
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July, July
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The Nuclear Age
3.42 avg rating — 456 ratings
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1986
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5 editions
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Northern Lights
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1975
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7 editions
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The Things They Carried / In the Lake of the Woods
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2011
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Naked Vinyl
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2002
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“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. ”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien
― Tim O'Brien
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