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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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's "China Beach," "The West Wing," or "E.R." ~Michael Cudlitz
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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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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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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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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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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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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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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. ~Aaron Taylor Johnson
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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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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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