Quotes with true-story

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  • Harriet Martineau If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Samuel Butler If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Democritus If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
    Democritus
    Greek scientist, astronomist and philosopher (460 - 380)
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  • Orville Wright If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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  • Henry Miller If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Carolyn Maloney If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Hammerstein If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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  • Ben Carson If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Anthony Holden If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bill Ackman If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Orson Welles If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Caroline B. Cooney If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • Groucho Marx If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Caleb Deschanel In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Bill James In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • William Shakespeare In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • David Leavitt In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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  • S. I. Hayakawa In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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