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Stories Quotes

Mother didn’t understand that children aren’t frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales Picture Quote #1

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience Picture Quote #1

People don’t like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we’re bored Picture Quote #1

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete Picture Quote #1

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart Picture Quote #1

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind Picture Quote #1

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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones Picture Quote #1

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out Picture Quote #1

People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were Picture Quote #1

If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it Picture Quote #1

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves Picture Quote #1

Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack Picture Quote #1

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Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness Picture Quote #1

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories Picture Quote #1

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories Picture Quote #1

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages Picture Quote #1

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up Picture Quote #1

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn’t pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom Picture Quote #1

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The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories Picture Quote #1

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk Picture Quote #1

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them Picture Quote #1

Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun Picture Quote #1

And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead Picture Quote #1

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she’d left behind Picture Quote #1

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You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice Picture Quote #1

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them Picture Quote #1

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die Picture Quote #1

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? Picture Quote #1

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released Picture Quote #1

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations Picture Quote #1

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Mother didn’t understand that children aren’t frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales (Stories Quotes) We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience (Stories Quotes) People don’t like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we’re bored (Stories Quotes) Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete (Stories Quotes) My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart (Stories Quotes) When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind (Stories Quotes) There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones (Stories Quotes) Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out (Stories Quotes) People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were (Stories Quotes) If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it (Stories Quotes) The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves (Stories Quotes) Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack (Stories Quotes) Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness (Stories Quotes) Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories (Stories Quotes) All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories (Stories Quotes) She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages (Stories Quotes) Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up (Stories Quotes) The trouble about jumping was that if you didn’t pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom (Stories Quotes) The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories (Stories Quotes) This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk (Stories Quotes) Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them (Stories Quotes) Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun (Stories Quotes) And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead (Stories Quotes) All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she’d left behind (Stories Quotes) You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice (Stories Quotes) Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them (Stories Quotes) I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die (Stories Quotes) Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? (Stories Quotes) Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released (Stories Quotes) I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations (Stories Quotes)

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