"Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story."
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"One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering."
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"Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me."
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"The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life."
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"No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us."
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"Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments."
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"If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself."
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"We are the stories we tell ourselves"
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"I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back."
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"Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties."
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"I wouldn't trade anything for my story now."
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"I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me."
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"But stories somehow lengthen when begun."
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"The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC."
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"I think I've done a lot of movies that people would like to have seen a sequel to. But I grew up in a time when we didn't do sequels. You just did a movie because you wanted to do a movie and you wanted to tell a story. It wasn't to build a franchise."
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"I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published."
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"My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them."
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"It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder."
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"Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness"
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"In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in, different stories, different approaches to the truth, which always is the same."
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