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Old Story Quotes

George R. R. Martin quote: "Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to..."
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. George R. R. Martin
Arthur Machen quote: "Old stories often turn out to be true."
Old stories often turn out to be true. Arthur Machen
Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we bever mindedn if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she use to saym you have to visit them from time to time. George R. R. Martin
Driving home, I heard the explosion and thought it was a new story born. But, Adrian, it’s the same old story, whispered past the same false teeth. How can we imagine a new language when the language of the enemy keeps our dismembered tongues tied to his belt? How can we imagine a new alphabet when the old jumps off billboards down into our stomachs? Adrian, what did you say? I want to rasp into sober cryptology and say something dynamic but tonight is my laundry night. How do we imagine a... Sherman Alexie
He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes. Albert Finney
Margaret Thatcher quote: "Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same..."
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. Margaret Thatcher
And now the old story has begun to write itself over there," said Carl softly. "Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes for thousands of years. Willa Cather
Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day. The old old story. Boys and girls fall in love, that is, they are driven mad and go blind and deaf and see each other not as human animals with comic noses and bandy legs and voices like frogs, but as angels so full of shining goodness that like hollow turnips with candles put into them, they seem miracles of beauty. And the next minute the candles shoot out sparks and burn their eyes. And... Joyce Cary
Terry Prachett quote: "Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta..."
Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead Terry Prachett
I mean, what kind of literature do you think ants would make if they could read? Not F. Scott Fuckin’ Fitzgerald, not Joyce or D-D—D-Dostoyevsky, not even friggin’ Steinbeck. Wouldn’t make any sense to ’em. You ever read Nabokov’s Lolita? Best book of the twentieth century, but old-fashioned my friend, old fuckin’ fashioned. Same old story over and over again, one more guy mesmerized by his own dick, wandering around the wreckage of his life. Who the fuck cares about that? Give me the Knights... Eric Bogosian
Neil Gaiman quote: "We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in..."
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. Neil Gaiman
I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available. Craig Ferguson
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all. Frances Power Cobbe
Greil Marcus quote: "We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are..."
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail. Greil Marcus
Anne Rice quote: "Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with..."
Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened. Anne Rice

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