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«She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.»
«I wanted a perfect ending. Now I?ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don?t rhyme, and some stories don?t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what?s going to happen next.»
«My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.»
«My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.»
«Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'»
Author: Colin Powell
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any longer, interviewer, long shot, mention, mentioning, progressive, Progressives, shot, stories, talk to, talk to me, The Progressive
«I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.»
«Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.»
Author: Dean Koontz
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billion, boring, cooks, epic, epics, good story, in short order, salesmen, shoe, short order, short stories, short story, smaller, stories, The short story, weirder, worlds
«My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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Work
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crack, cracking, crack up, deny, Father, fathering, in jokes, joked, jokes, love story, my father, read, stories, take a joke, taught, Teach, Telling Stories, tells a story
«People don?t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
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Life,
Problems
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cleaned, cleaned up, distractions, dramas, fixed, messed, resolved, scarier, scariest, scary, solved, stories, the Big, unknown
«Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.»
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