Story Quotes
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This story does not have a happy ending; they almost never do. The only happy stories you will ever hear are told by men—they spin their lies, trying to convince themselves that they cause no devastation, and that the hearts they break were never worth much to begin with.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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We're all over this story. This is not going to go away.
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Aside from our special teams, we played pretty well. That's been the story of our season so far.
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A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.
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That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .
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When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!
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Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.
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My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.
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Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
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The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.
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O sleep! O sleep! Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand Over the lids that crave thy visits bland, Thou kind, thou comforting one. For I have seen his face, as I desired, And all my story is done. O, I am tired.
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If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
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What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
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My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.
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That's the most rock-and-roll story in the world. No one can top it.
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“All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity.”
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My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.
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“With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.”
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Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you.
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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
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Her life was her book. She didn’t get to choose the ending, but the way she filled the pages makes her story irresistible.
