Adam Gopnik Quotes, Trying Quotes, Stories Quotes

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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The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Stories Quotes

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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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Stories Quotes

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Tree Quotes , Stories Quotes

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Stories Quotes

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Rocks Quotes , Stories Quotes

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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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Writing Quotes , Stories Quotes

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

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Tags : Aamir Khan Quotes , Stories Quotes , Kind Quotes

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

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Tags : Aaron Paul Quotes , Stories Quotes , Love Story Quotes

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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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stories Quotes , Elements Quotes

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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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Stories Quotes , Spirit Quotes

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Stories Quotes , Detectives Quotes