Jane Austen Quotes, Stories Quotes, Spirit 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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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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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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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

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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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Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

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

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Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

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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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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

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

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