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"A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."
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"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."
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"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."
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"We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ['Everybody his story']"
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"And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
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"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do."
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"Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them."
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"That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies."
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"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."
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"Stories are a communal currency of humanity."
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"Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."
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"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."
Mortality
"If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes."
Spiritual
"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."
Sociology
"We just had a near-life experience!"
Experience
"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."
Death
"What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven."
Philosophy
"I don't want to die without any scars."
Courage
"Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet."
Humor
"Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot.Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours."
Self
"Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother."
Parenting
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