"To survive, you must tell stories."
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"I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."
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"Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets."
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"When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth."
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"We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil."
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"Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story."
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"The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before."
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"Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born."
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"I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story."
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"The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful."
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"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."
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"The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories."
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"Stories are equipment for living."
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"My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor."
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"Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done."
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"I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp."
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"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal."
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"Your story is where you take it to, not where you start."
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"There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell."
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"All you really have in the end are your stories."
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