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What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong? Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?"
Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself? Chuck Palahniuk
She told herself a story about a daughter in a family so hungry for a daughter that it would have eaten her alive if she hadn't run away. Jonathan Franzen
For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur. Sting
What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience. John Gardner
Men cheat. They lie. They love porn. The don't respect you and don't care if they hurt you. It's the fucking breaks. Women divorce 'em 'cause we can't tame 'em or train 'em or control 'em like we do household pets. End of story. Terry McMillan
Homicide thats a big word means i killed a guy. seven years. im sprung in four for keep'n my nose clean." (18) the hich hiker is saying this to the truck driver and i think it puts alot of meanning to the book because the truck driver just realized that he could have just died. it adds suspense to the story and makes it kinda scary. John Steinbeck
It would be nice to think that as I've got older times have changed, relationships have become more sophisticated, females less cruel, skins thicker, reactions sharper, instincts more developed. But there still seems to be an element of that evening in everything that happened to me since; all my other romantic stories seem to be a scrambled version of that first one. Of course, I have never had to take that long walk again, and my ears have not burned with quite the same fury, and I have... Nick Hornby
Teddy looked at him directly for the first time. Are you a poet?' he asked. A poet?' Nicholson said. 'Lord, no. Alas, no. Why do you ask?' I don't know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.' " - Teddy and Nicholson in "Teddy" (Nine Stories) J. D. Salinger
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically. Madeleine L'Engle
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. Chuck Palahniuk
He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending. I swear! Cornelia Funke
A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe. Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. William Shakespeare
Jimmy Buffett quote: "Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in..."
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. Jimmy Buffett
Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage. C. S. Lewis

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