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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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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
Society
"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."
Mortality
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
Time
"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
Religion
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
Work
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
Work
"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."
Relationship
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
Religion
"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."
Philosophy
"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
Writing
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