"Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly."
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"For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth."
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"Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again."
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"I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were."
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"We owe it to each other to tell stories."
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"Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time."
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"I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances."
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"By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud."
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"Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy."
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"The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none."
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"Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat."
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"Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes."
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"Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty."
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"The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little."
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"Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate."
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"Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future"
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"If you own this story you get to write the ending."
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"Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story."
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"If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story."
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"The story is not in the plot but in the telling."
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