O. Henry Quotes, Faces Quotes, Stories Quotes

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

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

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

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All love stories are the same.

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Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

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

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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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Stories Quotes , Wonderful Quotes

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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Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Stories Quotes , Firsts Quotes

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

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

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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Stories Quotes

When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Writing Quotes , Stories Quotes

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

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