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  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.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, New Beginnings

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.

  Glennon Melton

  Wisdom, Good Day, Bad Day

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• What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, People, Stories

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1993). “Fitzgerald: The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

  David Byrne

  Sea, Two, Stories

  David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.365, Three Rivers Press

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• Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

  Alethea Kontis

  Stories, Were Meant To Be, Be Good

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

  Hilary Mantel

  Lying, Stories

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• I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

  David Levithan

  Stories, Young, Firm

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.46, Egmont UK

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• Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.

  Vikram Chandra

  Regret, Hypocrite, Past

  Vikram Chandra (2011). “Red Earth and Pouring Rain”, p.365, Faber & Faber

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• Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  Mark Twain

  Witty, Truth, Deep Thought

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• Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

  Jasper Fforde

  Essence, Needs, Stories

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.201, Penguin

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• You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

  Richard Ford

  Writing, Stories, Influence

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• A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

  Walt Disney

  Journey, Stories, Fantastic

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• A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

  Julie Taymor

  Special, Stories, Visuals

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• My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Father, Boys

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• I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Two, Attention

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

  Alia Shawkat

  Writing, Stories, Want

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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• I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

  Marguerite Moreau

  People, Different, Stories

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• When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that I hear that I think I can turn into a story. I write about the story that I'm working on and where I think it might go.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

  Mother Teresa

  Long, Laughing, Tone

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• Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stories, Crowds, Appearance

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.980, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Class, Stories

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• Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, People, Anecdotes

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 17, 2011

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• There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); this is a very good party town, a good drinking place. I definitely would like to come back and check it out further. Do some more research, as I call it.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Party, Drinking

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