"The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear."
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"People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life."
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"The ambitions we have will become the stories we live."
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"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
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"Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves."
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"It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors."
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"There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops."
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"I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?"
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"Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it."
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"A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things."
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"To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work."
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"When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless."
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"The last story: God is everything, God is good."
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"Who would you be without your story?"
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"Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over."
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"You are what exists before all stories."
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"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY."
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"I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end."
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"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories."
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"I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell."
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