"The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story."
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"The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story."
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"Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house."
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"But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman."
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"You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table."
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"The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region."
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"Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story."
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"I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story."
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"Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care.""
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"Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning."
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"Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact."
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"Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness."
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"I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story."
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"I have never sold my story, done Hello! magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line."
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"If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me."
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"What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple."
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"The story of one person is the story of all of humanity."
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"You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends."
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"And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into."
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"Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to."
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