Quotes with true-story

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  • Joan Didion Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
    Source: Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Brendon Burchard We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ronald Laing We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • John Steinbeck We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Bill Irwin We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Pamela Hansford Johnson We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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  • T. S. Eliot We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Eric Hoffer We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • C. S. Lewis We do not retreat from reality, we rediscover it. As long as the story lingers in our mind, the real things are more themselves... By dipping them in myth we see them more clearly.
    Source: On Stories and Other Essays Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Byron Katie We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.
    Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    Austrian writer (1830 - 1916)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Bob Iger We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Hesiod We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • C. S. Lewis We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
    Source: The Weight of Glory (1949)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Nikki Giovanni We love because it's the only true adventure.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
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  • William Hazlitt We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
    Source: Characteristics (1823)
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Peter de Vries We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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