Tim OBrien Quotes about Heart

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The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.

Memories, Heart, World

Tim O'Brien (2011). “Tomcat in Love”, p.4, Broadway Books

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.

Tim O'Brien

Struggle, Heart, Character

It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

Tim O'Brien

Heart, Doubt, Tears

Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Tim OBrien Quotes about Heart

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