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"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"
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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."
"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."
"If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong."
"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']"
"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."
"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do."
"We owe it to each other to tell stories."
"The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction."
"I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it."
"Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them."
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"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
"Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach."
"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude."
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