"That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough."
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"Be wary of listening to stories secondhand."
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"Our children's children will hear a good story."
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"Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself."
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"I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers."
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"It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you."
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"A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth."
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"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them."
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"But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen."
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"If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden."
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"Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?"
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"As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling."
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"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves."
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"And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in."
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"Imagine a new story for your life and start living it."
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"& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect"
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"Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle."
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"In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out."
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"We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them."
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"Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories."
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