Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Stories Quotes

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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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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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

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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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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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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

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

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

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

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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

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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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With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

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The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

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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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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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

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