O. Henry Quotes, Faces 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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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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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Stories Quotes , Storytelling Quotes

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

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All love stories are the same.

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The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

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We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.

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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

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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

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

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Tags : Adrian Grenier Quotes , Fun Quotes , Stories Quotes

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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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

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

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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , People Quotes , Stories Quotes

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Stories Quotes , Heard Quotes

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

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