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"There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind."
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"A great story is impossible to forget."
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"At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something."
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"Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries."
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"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."
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"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist."
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"What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not."
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"When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories."
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"As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job."
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"I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true."
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"The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City."Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. "It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. "He had another."
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"We have a saying up here. 'Life is wasted on the living."
Philosophy
"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
Science
"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"
Communication
"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."
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"The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin. Again the pause. 'Oh d-'And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited."
Humor
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
Life
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
Family
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
Difference
"Time is bunk."
Time
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
Imagination
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