Story Quotes (page 144)

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• earth
• writing
• history

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world. H. G. Wells

• words
• live
• transformative

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken Ian Mcewan

• lost
• hero
• evil

On the first page of our story. The future seemed so bright. Then this thing turned out so evil. I don't know why I'm still surprised. Even angels have their wicked schemes. And you take that to new extremes. But you'll always be my hero. Even though you've lost your mind Rihanna

• greatness
• diamond
• black

after we ate we was silent on our blankets looking out across the mighty Great Divide I never seen this country before it were like a fairy story landscape the clear and windy skies was filled with diamonds the jagged black outlines of the ranges were a panorama. You're going to ride a horse across all that. I know. He laughed and he were right I knew nothing of what lay ahead. See that there he pointed. That is called the Crosscut Saw and that one is Mount Speculation and yonder is Mount... Peter Carey

• people
• to live
• elected

If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them? Cormac McCarthy

• love
• friendship
• look

Sometimes I look a the Moon, and I imagine that those darker spots are caverns, cities, islands, and the places that shine are those where the sea catches the light of the sun like the glass of a mirror...I would like to tell of war and friendship among the various parts of the body, the arms that do battle with the feet, and the veins that make love with the arteries or the bones with the marrow. All the stories I would like to write persecute me when I am in my chamber, it seems as if they... Umberto Eco

• great
• she
• greatness

She's got a certain feisty charm for a racist. Not to mention all those great dead-animal stories. Wally Lamb

• evening
• true
• uses

What's the use of stories that aren't even true? Salman Rushdie

• facts
• problems
• problem

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Chuck Palahniuk

• life
• had
• felt

I had always felt life first as a story... Gilbert K. Chesterton

• hero
• best
• love

Franny’s Hollywood name, her acting name, is one you know. This is our family’s story, and it’s inappropriate for me to use Franny’s stage name – but I know that you know her. Franny is the one you always desire. She is the best one, even when she’s the villain; she always the real hero, even when she dies, even when she dies for love – or worse, for war. She’s the most beautiful, the most unapproachable, but the most vulnerable too, somehow – and the toughest. (She’s why you go to the... John Irving

• reading
• magic
• words

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen. Kate DiCamillo

• communication
• health
• may

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need. Barry Lopez

• country
• ocean
• life

I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else. Alice Munro

• food
• personality
• sometimes

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. Barry Lopez