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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Story and Story-Telling
Raymond Chandler

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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Story and Story-Telling
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
Story and Story-Telling
Jean De La Bruyere

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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Story and Story-Telling
Walter Benjamin

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The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
Story and Story-Telling
Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun