Stories Quotes — Page 31

Author

“She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)”

Ideas Done Stories

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Haruki Murakami

Writer

“That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

Thinking Stories Twists

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Lee Clow

Advertising Executive

“Telling stories on behalf of brands is what I've done all my life.”

Done Stories

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

“every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.”

Believe Mind

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me.”

People Stories Loner

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.”

Stories Differences Respect

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Miguel Angel Ruiz

Author, Spiritual Teacher

“When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.”

Mean Trying Stories

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Pablo Picasso

Painter, Sculptor

“In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!”

Names Stories Signatures

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Daisaku Ikeda

Buddhist Leader, Author

“The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.”

People Stories Rights

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

“There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'”

Trying Stories Snooping

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

“It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.”

Stories Reading Childhood

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Barack Obama

Politician

“Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.”

Writing Stories Inspirational Life

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