"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
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"When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise."
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"I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story."
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"Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived."
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"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
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"Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told."
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"I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]."
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"So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend"
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"There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup."
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"What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share."
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"Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience."
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"What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience."
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"I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself."
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"Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage."
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"But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?"
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"All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully."
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"You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive."
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"You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative."
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"Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story."
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"I like stories with lots of psychology."
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