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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. - Raymond

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – Raymond Chandler

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Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

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The story—from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace—is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind for the purpose of understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou

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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. – Hannah Arendt

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The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spoke not just to the ears but to the heart as well. – Jane Yolen

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He that is jealous is not in love. – Saint Augustine

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What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly. – Marla Maples

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