"Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs."
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"I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell."
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"I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes."
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"Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life."
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"No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them."
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"We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling."
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"Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God"
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"My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying."
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"Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story."
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"A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later."
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"And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time."
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"There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it."
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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more."
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"I'm always a sucker for a love story."
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"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
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"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."
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"The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story."
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"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."
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"Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story."
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"Why ruin a good story with the truth?"
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