Adrienne Rich Quotes, Psychics Quotes, Stories Quotes

Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?" Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

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I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Stories Quotes , Literature Quotes

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

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With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

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

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

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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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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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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