“ The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. ”
- Robert Penn Warren- Copy
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“ I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables? ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
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“ If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ”
- Bern Williams- Copy
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“ I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ”
- Bill Watterson- Copy
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“ History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. ”
- Hans Christian Andersen- Copy
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“ Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
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“ No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought. ”
- Irving Thalberg- Copy
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“ And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ”
- John Hersey- Copy
- 117
“ There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 883
“ The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it. ”
- Mrs. Humphrey Ward- Copy
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