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None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.
~ Edmund Crispin
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.
~ Edmund Crispin
All my life I've made friends and lost lovers and talked about these two activities as though they were very different, opposed; but in truth love is the direct and therefore hopeless method of calling Orpheus back, whereas friendship is the equally hopeless because irrelevant attempt to find warmth in other shades. Odd that in the story Orpheus is lonely, too.
~ Edmund White
she sees her life pass before her in rapid succession, like clouds, different shapes and different colors, merging, passing into one another, the story of her life being pulled out of her, like the pages pulled from a book.
~ Edna O'Brien
London es, antes que nada, una novela. Todas las familias cuya suerte sigue esta historia, desde los Ducket hasta la familia de Penny, son ficticias, al igual que el papel que cada uno de ellos desempeña en los hechos históricos que se describen. Al seguir la historia de estas familias imaginarias a lo largo de los siglos, he
~ Edward Rutherfurd
London es, antes que nada, una novela. Todas las familias cuya suerte sigue esta historia, desde los Ducket hasta la familia de Penny, son ficticias, al igual que el papel que cada uno de ellos desempeña en los hechos históricos que se describen. Al seguir la historia de estas familias imaginarias a lo largo de los siglos, he tratado de situarlas entre
~ Edward Rutherfurd
When your wants become needs, it means that you have put your trust in people. They have become like a god to you. Yet, for some reason, the true God is patient with you. Although you might reject him, he doesn't reject you. And this is everyone's story.
~ Edward T. Welch
Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Daniel Kahneman astutely observed, "No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.
~ Edwin H Friedman
And each of the train's hundred windows had a face. Passing quickly, it became a strip of film so worked as film does: one continuous story formed, The Man of A Hundred Faces. I ran alongside, so slow (that trick of perception) I ran backwards. Finally, I was a child. I looked up in the movie theater I went to each Saturday afternoon, the screen like a window, and waved to the figure there, an old man at the station just as we pulled away." - The Story
~ Albert Goldbarth
Lo literario de viajar es que uno después recuerda algo parecido a un cuento o una novela donde el protagonosta es uno mismo.
~ Alberto Fuguet
This is all based on a true story, gentlemen. Hollywood big shots lined up all the way to the Hills to have a diet soda with me, but I wasn't gonna let them fuck me! No, sir!" Graham flashed his middle finger to the erstwhile line of big shots. "Feel free to fuck yourselves, you bunch of Weinsteins!
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Non sento affatto il bisogno di scrivere storie di vincitori. Penso che ogni vittoria sia falsa. Vera è solo la sconfitta, perché la vita è in definitiva sempre una sconfitta, a meno che non sia, dal principio alla fine, un'illusione. E le illusioni non mi attirano.
~ Aleksandar Tišma
The morning after the battle, Kincaid came across an acquaintance and asked what had gone on with him and his unit the previous day. The man replied, "I'll be hanged if I know anything at all about the matter, for I was all day trodden in the mud and galloped over by every scoundrel who had a horse." He had no other story to tell. Macready,
~ Alessandro Barbero
In the letter, Agnese's scribe, after complaining about how unclear the previous message was, went on to describe, in an almost equally clear manner, what he called the tremendous story of that person.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Like the boy who drives his little Indian pigs to the fold, whose obstinacy impels them divers ways, and thus obliges him first to apply to one and then to another till he can succeed in penning them all, so are we obliged to play the same game with the personages of our story.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
INTRODUCTION This is one untold story of an extremely rare adventure that happened in the world of Minecraft. It is well documented in the "Top secret archived records of Minecraft", also known as "X-Files". They are not accessible to anyone. This adventure is known as "The Battle of Legends". It's one of the greatest adventures in the world of Minecraft.
~ Alex Anderson
have to be alive to tell the tale.
~ Alex Anderson
Maybe Cinderella was the bad guy in the story, and her stepsisters were just nerdy girls who wanted a boyfriend. How politically correct was it, really, to make the villains ugly? And how realistic? In my experience, it was usually the pretty people who were mean to the ugly ones, not the other way.
~ Alex Flinn
He was part of an old story, a story that spanned many centuries and many cultures. He was Loki chained in the Netherworld, Prometheus on the rock. He was a God and these men were mortals. They could hurt him, but they had not killed him yet. Perhaps they could not kill him. He was an idea and was, therefore, immortal.
~ Alex Grecian
He was part of an old story, a story that spanned many centuries and many cultures. He was Loki chained in the Netherworld, Prometheus on the rock. He was a god and these men were mortals. They could hurt him, but they had not killed him yet. Perhaps they could not kill him. He was more than a man. He was an idea and was, therefore, immortal.
~ Alex Grecian
So Dad has joined the others up there. I feel that they do watch and guide, and I also feel that they join me in the hope that this story of our people can help alleviate the legacies of the fact that preponderantly the histories have been written by the winners.
~ Alex Haley
History is the autobiography of a madman.
~ Alexander Herzen
Everyone in Hollywood wanted a role in this movie. Everyone wanted to have a part in it. I feel so lucky that I got one, but what I find so cool about 'Hunger Games' is that the real star is the story itself.
~ Alexander Ludwig