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The Story
«It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.»
«I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.»
«In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.»
Author: Fulton Oursler
| Keywords:
autobiographies, Creator, creature, ending, love story, personalities, The Story, this one, unfinished
«In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violent confrontations, we could benefit from the reminder that storytelling is common to all civilizations. Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.»
«If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, ''I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life.'' I mean people are going to say, ''You're crazy.'' Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
camera, keep guard, license, plus, that much, The Story
«In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.»
Author: Rachel Carson
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
beach, curving, grain, headland, On the Beach, outthrust, sand, The Beaches, The Story
«I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
| Keywords:
in style, My Style, reading, story, style, styled, The Story, think about, writing style
«I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bet, culture, legend, recur, recurring, The Legend, The Story, throughout
«In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
agencies, bigotry, brutish, cultist, government agencies, incarnate, incarnated, outsider, outsiders, psychiatrists, recapitulate, self-righteous, self government, The Story, unsightly, word for word