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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of ones family and friends and lastly, the solid cash. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Family
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Writing
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It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. – Native American saying

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Storytelling

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. – Italo Calvino

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Australian Aborigines say that the big stories—the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life—are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. – Robert Moss

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Storytelling

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

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Storytelling

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