Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Stories Quotes, Want Quotes

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

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Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Stories Quotes

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Stories Quotes , Causes Quotes

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

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You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

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The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

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PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Play Quotes , Stories Quotes

I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Needs Quotes , Stories Quotes

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

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Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

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Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

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Tags : Al Goldstein Quotes , Effort Quotes , Stories Quotes