Quotes with true-story

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  • Horace Walpole Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Milan Kundera All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Barry Unsworth All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Gustave Flaubert All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Lewis All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 :
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Antonin Artaud All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Martin Luther All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
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  • Master Kahn All words are part true and part false.
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  • Caroline Leavitt All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Bob Kane Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Bryant H. McGill American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Anthony Holden Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Amy Hempel An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
    (2008)
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Bret Harte And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story — yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Berkeley Breathed And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Robert Frost And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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