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

Other quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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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Other Quotes from
Storytelling
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Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos. – Jane Yolen

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Storytelling

Stories give color to black and white information. – Todd Stocker

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Storytelling

for the soul. – Natalie Kusz, Road Song, 1990

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Storytelling

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. – John Barth

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Storytelling

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It is legal because I wish it. – Louis XIV

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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. – Edmund Hillary

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Money

Flatter yourself critically. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007

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Self-Respect

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm. – Anon.

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