Long Story Quotes

• Piper went a little crazy. She cried out with relief and dove straight into the water. What was she thinking? She didn't take a rope or a life vest or anything. But at the moment, she was just so happy that she paddled over to Leo and kissed him on the cheek, which kind of surprised him. "Miss me?" Leo laughed. Piper was suddenly furious. "Where were you? How are you guys alive?" "Long story," he said. A picnic basket bobbed to the surface next to him. "Want a brownie?

  Rick Riordan

  Crazy, Thinking, Long

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• Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset.
  Give it time. That is all that may be required. Just give it time. Do not try to push the river. The cycles of life present themselves, play themselves out, and make smooth every passage and terrain.
  Try not to get caught up in your story of the moment. Look, rather, to the Long Story. Therein will be found your peace. The cycles will redeem this moment, if you let them, and even this shall pass.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Morning, Sunset, Cycle Of Life

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 26, 2015

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• Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that government. Well, long story short, he failed to do that. He built up the military to a much greater status, more people in it, and actually more employees after the end of the Reagan administration. And, to achieve his objectives, he did some of the very same things that Trump is doing to achieve his. What Ronald Reagan really wanted to dismantle was the welfare state. And he had limited success in doing that.

  Brian Balogh

  Military, Government, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

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• And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart.

  Tayari Jones

  Mother, Coffee, Heart

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.27, Algonquin Books

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• I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Thinking, Long, Together

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• The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.31, David C Cook

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• To make a long story short, I auditioned for the role of Piper because I read the pilots every year and this show was head-and-shoulders above any pilot I've read in awhile. It was amazing. So, I read for Piper and I knew that I wasn't really right for it, but I loved it so much that I wanted to read for it.

  Laura Prepon

  Years, Long, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.

  Billy Campbell

  Character, Long, Giving

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• Which do you fight for?" "Actually, I'm here by mistake." "Mistake?" "Yes. Sort of. Well, it's a long story. And now ... I'm here. And I'm not fighting. My plan is to enjoy the food until you kick me out.

  Kiera Cass

  Mistake, Fighting, Long

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.53, HarperCollins

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• The vulture Nekhbet, who'd one possessed my gran (long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished in hot sauce ( don't even ask) - page 9

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, Long, Hot Sauce

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• Life is too short for a long story

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Funny, Life, Long

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.278

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• All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

  William Graham Sumner

  Winning, Men, Burdens Of Life

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays”

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• Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

  Brian Eno

  Long, Listening, Stories

  "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with Davide Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 2, 2011.

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• I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Long, Dumb

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• Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

  Tabitha King

  Writing, Character, Long

  "Stephen King's Wife Spins P'Cola Yarn". Interview with Sam Baltrusis, www.inweekly.net. June 15, 2006.

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• My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

  Stephen Colbert

  Brother, Children, Cutting

  "How many Stephen Colberts are there?" by Charles McGrath, www.nytimes.com. January 4, 2012.

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• In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

  Frances Hardinge

  Long, Stories, Want

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• The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a girl and we necked all the way to Indianapolis. She was nearsighted. When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter. She bought my meals; my sandwiches were all gone. In exchange I told her long stories.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Halloween, Moon

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.197, Penguin

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• But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

  Demetri Martin

  Writing, Tv Shows, Long

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 25, 2009.

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• My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Father, Long, Would Be

  Interview with Michael Silverblatt, stephengreenblatt.com. March 16, 2013.

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• These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Freedom, Book

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.108, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I’m going back to bed,” Grandma said when Mooner and Dougie left. “This doesn’t look too interesting. I liked it better the other night when you were on the floor with the bounty hunter.” Morelli gave me the same kind of look Desi always gave Lucy when she’d just done something incredibly stupid. “It’s a long story,” I said. “I bet.

  Janet Evanovich

  Stupid, Grandma, Night

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.702, Macmillan

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• I'd slept with Ranger! Not sexually, of course. But I'd been in his bed. And then there was the evil shower gel. "It was all because of the shower gel," I said. Morelli's eyes narrowed. "Shower gel?" I made a major effort not to sigh. "Long story. You probably don't want to hear it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Eye, Long, Evil

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.262, Macmillan

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• You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wise, Long, Age

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.331, Penguin

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• Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere else,” said Magnus. “Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I’m banned from Peru. I’d forgotten about that. It’s a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Somewhere Else, Space, Long

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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