Charles Dickens Quotes, Stories Quotes, Wonderful Quotes

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

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PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

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

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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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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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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When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

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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 love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

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

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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 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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