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The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.


Nuala O'Faolain

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Take this kiss upon the brow!
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve...
P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion.
CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e...
JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev...
JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard...
R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer...
TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war.
TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ...
TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat...
TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein...
TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y...
TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s...
TIM O'BRIEN In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem...
TIM O'BRIEN It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,...
TIM O'BRIEN He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ...
TIM O'BRIEN And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for....
TIM O'BRIEN What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
TIM O'BRIEN It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d...
TIM O'BRIEN you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
TIM O'BRIEN But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the w...
TIM O'BRIEN War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and...
TIM O'BRIEN I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
TIM O'BRIEN Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y...
TIM O'BRIEN The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo...
TIM O'BRIEN But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
TIM O'BRIEN A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of p...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink o...
TIM O'BRIEN She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth
PATRICK O'BRIAN Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly.

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PATRICK O'BRIAN She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him
MAGGIE O'FARRELL The "new" Anglo-American feminist theory argues that too little mothering, and, in particular, the a...
ANDREA O'REILLY When you go home
Tell them of us, and say
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today.
PATRICK O'DONNELL No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source o...
P.J. O'ROURKE —Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder ...
JAMIE O'NEILL