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The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale... Vera Nazarian Stories 134
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself. Erin Morgenstern Stories 103
Storiesindividual stories family stories national storiesare what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals. Yann Martel Stories 102
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person but to make it the definitive story of that person. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Stories 101
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories. C.G. Jung Stories 94
I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ... Markus Zusak Stories 93
Stories are a different kind of true. Emma Donoghue Stories 92
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. Patrick Ness Stories 87
People are wonderful. Each one has a story each something to give each knows something interesting something that can make your life richer. Marjorie Pay Hinckley Stories 84
People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her some bound and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real and some as fiction. But she honored them all though she didnt buy every one. Louise Penny Stories 82
For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories. Tahir Shah Stories 82
Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future. Habeeb Akande Stories 81
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive. Samuel R. Delaney Stories 78
He wanted the songs the stories to save everybody. Sherman Alexie Stories 78
I do get most of the harder-to-get stories. Victoria Gotti Stories 75
We tell our stories especially as young people in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might just might be real. Dana Frank Stories 75
But bad luck makes good stories. Bernard Evslin Stories 71
People ask me all the time Where do your ideas come from So to clear up this question...I keep my ideas inside the mind of a tiny man who is tied up in my closet C.K. Webb Stories 71
The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible and however long we read we shall never come to the end of our storybook. Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College London 3 October 1892 A.E. Housman Stories 70
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life The world would split open. Muriel Rukeyser Stories 69
Were all made of stories. When they finally put us underground the stories are what will go on. Not forever perhaps but for a time. Its a kind of immortality I suppose bounded by limits its true but then sos everything. Charles de Lint Stories 69
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps if we are lucky our story about death is also a story about love. Helen Humphreys Stories 68
Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us. Francesca Lia Block Stories 68
But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories ... Wes Moore Stories 65
Dont ever tell anybody anything. If you do you start missing everybody. J.D. Salinger Stories 65
The world isnt just the way it is. It is how we understand it no And in understanding something we bring something to it no Doesnt that make life a story Yann Martel Stories 65
Some stories, you use up. Others use you up. Chuck Palahniuk Stories 64
Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away. Daniel Taylor Stories 64
He. Does there have to be a he It seems weak and unoriginal doesnt it for stories told by girls to always have a he Rinsai Rossetti Stories 63
I have stories. But stories are not facts. I like stories. Love them actually. Most of the time theyre better than facts. Morgan Rhodes Stories 62
All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them. Isak Dinesen Stories 62
Were not eight kingdoms but an entire land with one heartbeat. Its why people like you and I need to record our peoples stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross and only then will we know true peace. Melina Marchetta Stories 61
All stories are true. But some of them never happened. James A. Owen Stories 60
When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed dont expect hardboned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing rocking safety of a lie. Diane Setterfield Stories 60
Perhaps some day Ill crawl back home beaten defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak beauty out of sorrow. Sylvia Plath Stories 59
We owe it to each other to tell stories as people simply... Neil Gaiman Stories 59
My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom. Anonymous Stories 58
Not all events are stories. Scarlett Thomas Stories 58
Television and cinema were all very well but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was in some way there. Its the magic of fiction you take the words and you build them into worlds. Neil Gaiman Stories 57
Our lives our stories flowed into one anothers were no longer our own individual discrete. Salman Rushdie Stories 56
According to Hannah real life just happens whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print she says you show it up for the pointless mess it really is. Jincy Willett Stories 56
Stories are psychodiagnostic they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch read or hear a story whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention. Thea Euryphaessa Stories 56
Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leaders arsenal Howard Gardner Stories 55
All Stories are True. John Edgar Wideman Stories 55
a story is ready when it falls from your face Steve Aylett Stories 54
But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were and who were the rats. Terry Pratchett Stories 54
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. Vladimir Nabokov Stories 54
If every event which occurred could be given a name there would be no need for stories. John Berger Stories 53
We do not last she thinks. In the end only the stories survive. Alexis M. Smith Stories 53
When he grew old Aristotle who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses . The more solitary and isolated I become the more I come to like stories he said. Michel de Certeau Stories 52

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