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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

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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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Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

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

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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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

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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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The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

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