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Stories Quotes

Just like any woman,... we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It’s all the same Picture Quote #1

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There’s the magic of it Picture Quote #1

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine Picture Quote #1

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town Picture Quote #1

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories Picture Quote #1

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes Picture Quote #1

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We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories Picture Quote #1

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world Picture Quote #1

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching Picture Quote #1

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories Picture Quote #1

... If we don’t tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won’t believe it Picture Quote #1

It takes a while to tell stories, I think it’s because I was drunk for three years Picture Quote #1

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Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it Picture Quote #1

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions Picture Quote #1

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn’t be human beings at all Picture Quote #1

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies Picture Quote #1

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever Picture Quote #1

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling Picture Quote #1

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Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories Picture Quote #1

People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves Picture Quote #1

If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world Picture Quote #1

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that’s true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling Picture Quote #1

As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I’m crying. So I go back to the stories I’ve read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine Picture Quote #1

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell Picture Quote #1

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Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story Picture Quote #1

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word Picture Quote #1

So maybe it wasn’t the fairy tale. But those stories weren’t real anyway. Mine were Picture Quote #1

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise Picture Quote #1

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories Picture Quote #1

Every story I’ve written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life Picture Quote #1

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Just like any woman,... we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It’s all the same (Stories Quotes) Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There’s the magic of it (Stories Quotes) In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine (Stories Quotes) All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town (Stories Quotes) In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories (Stories Quotes) We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes (Stories Quotes) We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories (Stories Quotes) Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world (Stories Quotes) Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching (Stories Quotes) Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories (Stories Quotes) ... If we don’t tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won’t believe it (Stories Quotes) It takes a while to tell stories, I think it’s because I was drunk for three years (Stories Quotes) Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it (Stories Quotes) All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions (Stories Quotes) Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn’t be human beings at all (Stories Quotes) There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies (Stories Quotes) Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever (Stories Quotes) As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling (Stories Quotes) Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories (Stories Quotes) People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves (Stories Quotes) If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world (Stories Quotes) We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that’s true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling (Stories Quotes) As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I’m crying. So I go back to the stories I’ve read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine (Stories Quotes) I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell (Stories Quotes) Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story (Stories Quotes) An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word (Stories Quotes) So maybe it wasn’t the fairy tale. But those stories weren’t real anyway. Mine were (Stories Quotes) Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise (Stories Quotes) We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories (Stories Quotes) Every story I’ve written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life (Stories Quotes)

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