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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Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

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I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stories Quotes , Elements Quotes

It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully.

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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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What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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

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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

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I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

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The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

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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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