"If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone."
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"Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories."
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"And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end."
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"I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad."
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"You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood"
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"The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story."
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"The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... They have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story."
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"It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive."
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"I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories"
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"I just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle."
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"I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories."
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"What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work."
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"Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different."
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"Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write."
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"People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience."
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"I read a lot of summaries about the story [ based on the Cyrano de Bergerac. ]. I also watched Roxanne, the movie starring Steve Martin."
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"If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?"
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"The Olive Garden is bringing back its 'Pasta Pass,' which lets you eat as much pasta as you want for seven weeks. In a related story, Chris Christie just suspended his campaign."
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"The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage."
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