A story untold could be the one that kills you. Pat Conroy

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Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves. Bruce Feiler

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Every story is informed by a worldview. Brian Godawa

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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. Chuck Palahniuk

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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. Ben Okri

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You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood. Byron Katie

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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here. Sue Monk Kidd

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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Octavia E. Butler

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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. Philip Pullman

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There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is. Bernie Mac

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Stories give color to black and white information. Todd Stocker

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The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Jimi Hendrix

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There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete. Parmenides

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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it. Irving Thalberg

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The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. Annette Simmons

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We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. Maxine Kumin

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Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. J.D. Salinger

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All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story. Isak Dinesen

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Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. Jo Deurbrouck

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There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm. Wes Anderson

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Books are humanity in print. Barbara Tuchman

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Books are the open avenues down which, like kings coming to be crowned, great ideas and inspirations move to the abbey of man's soul. Ernest Dressel North

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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. Christopher Morley

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A great book should leave you with many experiences. You live lives while reading it. William Styron

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I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big screen fig-tree. Sylvia Plath

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Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the to the viewer as a really big, scary one. Art Buchwald

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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. Arthur Miller

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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. Ben Hecht

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All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. Bobby Knight

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The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. C.E.M. Joad

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