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... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.


Shannon Hale


#story

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.


Hilary Mantel


#books #fiction #read #reading #stories

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.


Alan Moore


#parables #storytelling #true

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#history #immigration #politics #revolution #united-states

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


Philip Pullman


#needs #stories #storytelling #writing #need

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.


Stephen King


#on-writing #stories #storytelling #words

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.


Adam Smith


#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere else,” said Magnus. “Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I’m banned from Peru. I’d forgotten about that. It’s a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.


Cassandra Clare


#magnus-bane #south-carolina #story

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.


Cassandra Clare


#magnus-bane #warlock #city

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.


Philip Pullman


#writing #story






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