"With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand."
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"Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story."
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"The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story."
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"Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better."
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"Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess"
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"Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it."
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"I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories."
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"I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me."
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"And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long."
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"While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him."
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"Everything starts with a story."
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"We cannot bear for our most mysterious experiences to remain unexplained. I've therefore learned...that every story has worth, since a person takes the time to tell it. The key is to listen."
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"Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence."
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"Every love story is a potential grief story."
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"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."
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"You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world."
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"Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet."
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"Some stories are so familiar its like going home."
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"If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious."
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"Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun."
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