#story

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#john #short-story #writer

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#hegel #history #learn #man #never

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#almost #always #best #last #left

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dwindled #early #great #i #magazines

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#extremely #family #great #high #history

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#must #promise #still #story #tease

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#history #human #human history #nonlinear #unpredictable

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#blood #down #go #history #i

I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#disadvantageous #even #formally #future #going