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STORIES" it should not be the perfect,not be untold,not be romedy.. it should be the lesson to teach the human, whats the life is??

Alisha mariam

But she always kept on until the end. She knew, as i knew, that you don't stop a story half done. You keep on going, through heartbreak and pain and fear, and times there is a happy ending, and times there isn't. Don't matter. You don't cut a flower half through and then wait and watch as it slowly shrivels to death. And you don't stop a story before you reach the end. - A Creature of Moonlight

Rebecca Hahn

The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.

Alice Hoffman

Stories come in all different kinds." Hester scooted closer, clearly enjoying the subject at hand. "There's tales, which are light and fluffy. Good for a smile on a sad day. Then you got yarns, which are showy-yarns reveal more about the teller than the story. After that there's myths, which are stories made up by whole groups of people. And last of all, there's legends." She raised a mysterious eyebrow. "Legends are different from the rest on account no one knows where they start. Folks don't tell legends; they repeat them. Over and over again through history.

Jonathan Auxier

Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

Cornelia Funke

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.

Robin Hood Doctor Who 8x01 "The Robots of Sherwood"

I had a dream about you last night... it was about a dreamer and a drifter walking into a bar. They start talking and swapping stories. No matter what the drifter says the dreamer always one-upped him. The drifter then woke up and realized he was the dreamer.

Marshall Ramsay

Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.

George R.R. Martin

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Martin Shaw

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

But stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever.

Joanne Harris

Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.

Sanhita Baruah

The three children had hear the story of the Duene lovers, but they interpreted it differently. And it does not matter, ultimately, what they heard or even what they knew. It is how they interpret the story that will make all the difference.

Tiphanie Yanique

But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.

Kate Messner

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

Camron Wright

I'd used people's stories and their lives to bolster my political arguments for changing welfare. Now, however, I was running into the people themselves, and I realized that using anyone's tragedy for political gain was cowardly.

David Kuo

I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others.

Martha M. Moravec

It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

Ann Wroe

That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

Tom Perrotta

A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.

Jonathan Auxier

There are always two sides to a story.

Una McCormack

You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. It’s who you are.

Richard House

Stories are how we connect. Evolution isn’t seriously about thumbs but about how we use language – that’s what raises us above dumb animals, right? Language?

Richard House

Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn’t. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.

Richard House

Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

otThere’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles.

Steven Hall

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Don Roff

Moral stories are always imaginary , but these stories induce real moral values in a human society .

Usama Gondal

There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.

Claire Robertson

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

Mia Couto

But here's a great thing about stories: they can be retold.

Christine Heppermann

Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

Daisy Whitney

The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.

James Plath

You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.

Jodi Picoult

Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

Sandra Dallas

To maintain your honesty , one must know to keep alive the spirit of chidhood

Tushar Upreti

But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms: 'Flowers and fruits, and other winged things.' These fairies try to be funny, and fail; or they try to preach, and succeed.

Andrew Lang

She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from television, and from friends. And to avoid the shouting and drug-induced moaning, and the row of male visitors her mum would entertain, she would barricade herself in her room – there'd been no lock – and lose herself in books.

Dianna Hardy

Wit smiled. "All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Brandon Sanderson

To call up modern versions of the old stories, one has to go forth and live life. As a result then, one will have the challenge of not only living the story, taking it all in, but also interpreting it in whatever ways are useful. So too, one will reap the reward of telling all about it afterward. One's interest in the world, and in having experiences, is really an interest in hearing, having, living one more story, and then one more, then one more story, till one cannot live them out loud any longer. Perhaps it should be said that the drive to live out stories is as deep in the psyche, when awakened, as it is compelling to the psyche to listen to stories and learn from them. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. in Introduction to the 2004 edition of The hero with a thousand faces (J.Campbell)

Joseph Campbell

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Aisha Mirza

The stories we pretend do not exist, are the stories that will haunt us till the end.

Srividya Srinivasan

Stories carry things. A lesson or moral. Information or a take-home message.

Jonah Berger

It’s so the stories go that the Ginen tell. If you find a beautiful fairmaid swimming in the river, her fish tail flashing; if you follow her down into her water home with her, she will make the water like air so you can breathe. But then she’ll ask you, playful, You eat salt, or you eat fresh? And if you say salt, she will let you go back home, but if you say fresh …“It’s my business,” he said. Pouted. Looked at the ground.If you only eat unsalted food, fresh food, we believe you make Lasirèn vexed, for salt is the creatures of the sea, and good for the Ginen to eat, but fresh—fresh is the flesh of Lasirèn, and if you eat that, it’s pride. You’re trying to make yourself as one of the lwas. Makandal never eats salt. He, a living man, giving himself powers like a lwa. That’s why he couldn’t hear the voice of the lwas.

Nalo Hopkinson

Without your stories, without your heroes and their awesome powers, how could you explain this, this here, this incomprehensible real that ever refuses to embrace any rule, any cliché besides the intransigent, pathetic truth that we all end, that no one comes back.

Tom King

If our story isn’t serving us, negatively impacts our families, our communities, or our organizations, we might just have to find a way to “StoryJack” the story, transforming it, and creating a new story that we resonate with so that we can “Jack Into” a better version or experience the story – and our life - in a new way.

Lyssa Danehy deHart

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

James Avery Fuchs

I know that I too could try a story out, rebuild mine, make it live again several minutes before the full of the day, the sun, the city. But I haven't the strength, stupidly. I rise and carry on. One more time.

Danielle Collobert

Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.

Shon Mehta

The next best thing to christmas is...... a story worth reading.

Nadun Lokuliyanage

But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end.

Lauren Oliver

Stories are light.

Kate DiCamillo

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

Zainab Salbi

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.

John Connolly

A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.

Cameron Dokey

Ah—now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while a story with Death might be true, a story with a king in it is always a fairy tale. But remember, this comes from a time when kings were as common as corn. Plant a field and you got corn. Plant a kingdom and you got a king. It is that simple.

Jane Yolen

[T]hat they may believe you, you must say it as obscurely as possible, just like that, simply in hints. You must only give them a peep of the truth, just enough to tantalize them. They'll tell a story better than ours, and of course they'll believe themselves more than they would us...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The problem with secrets is that they don't want to stay that way. They say information wants to be free. And maybe that's the case. But what I do know is that every story wants to be told. You can bury them as deep as you want. You can hide them. You can toss them into the darkest places you can imagine, but sooner or later... They always come back.

Justin Jordan

Stories are one of the most powerful ways in which we communicate ideas among ourselves. They are the stuff that brings us together, the things we celebrate, the things we share with one another.

Robert Stephen Parry

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