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

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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

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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

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

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The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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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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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

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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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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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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

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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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