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• Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

  Arnold Arre

  Love Is, Deterioration, Stories

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• Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Stories, Alive

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

  Mark Doty

  Darkness, Looks, Stories

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• What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Thinking, Long, Feeling Sad

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.217, Vintage

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• Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.

  A. A. Milne

  House, Robins, Stories

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.18, Egmont UK

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• For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Stories, Sake

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 155

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• A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Stories

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Tv News, Personality, Stories

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.188, Ballantine Books

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• It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

  Aaliyah

  Song, Albums, Stories

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• Sad stories make good books

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Stories, Good Book

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.70, A&C Black

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• funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

  Sarah Dessen

  Beautiful, Song, Stories

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

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• Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  People, Stories, Woe

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

  Muhammad Ali

  People, Weakness, Stories

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2010

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• Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.

  Dan Quayle

  Want, Rubber, Lasts

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• Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Character, Ribs, Stories

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• Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Morning, Drinking, Yesterday

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• And nothing can we call our own but death
  And that small model of the barren earth
  Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
  For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
  And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Kings, Stories

  1595 Richard. Richard II, act 3, sc.2, l.148-50.

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• You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

  John Green

  Believe, Choices, Stories

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.120, Penguin

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• You can do weird things on TV - there are happy stories, sad stories, dark stories. But with a movie, it always has to end satisfying. Unless you're the Coen brothers, and it ends with somebody getting shot in the head.

  Judd Apatow

  Brother, Dark, Stories

  Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

  John Darnielle

  Men, Talking, Stories

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Frustration, Istanbul, Sea

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

  Nelson Mandela

  Uplifting, Stories, African Music

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• I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

  Steven Weinberg

  Long, Important, Atheism

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• If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Country, Memories, Distance

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Feb 25, 2012

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• Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

  Ai Weiwei

  Growing Up, Disappointment, Joy

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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