Anton Chekhov Quotes, Stories Quotes, Too Much Quotes

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

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

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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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The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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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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Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

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I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

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

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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 censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

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

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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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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

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

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