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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
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Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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'50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
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'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.
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'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
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A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
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A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
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