Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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