Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Laughing Quotes, Stories Quotes

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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

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With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

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I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?" Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

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Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

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The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

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I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

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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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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

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The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

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

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