Mark Twain Quotes, Humorous Quotes, Stories Quotes

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

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Truth Quotes , Stories Quotes

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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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Faces Quotes , Stories Quotes

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

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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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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Stories Quotes , Half Quotes

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Long Quotes , Stories Quotes

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Time Quotes , Stories 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

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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Stories Quotes , Wonderful Quotes

You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Stories Quotes

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Needs Quotes , Stories Quotes