William Butler Yeats Quotes, Women Quotes, Stories Quotes

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

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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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Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

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We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.

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

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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.

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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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

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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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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

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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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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

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

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

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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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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 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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