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“Believe that story false that ought not to be true.”

Believe Stories Ought Being True Scandal

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.”

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Author:Jonathan Swift

“Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.”

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Book:Two years ago ... Third edition

Source: Two years ago ... Third edition

“The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.”

Men Children Stories Ought Divorce Unhappy Nursery Happy Marriage Unhappy Marriage

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.”

Ifs Stories Able Ought

Book:Mystery and Manners

Source: Mystery and Manners

“Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.”

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Book:Thrones, Dominations

Source: Thrones, Dominations

“Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.”

Want Stories Ought Variety

Book:The lais of Marie de France

Source: The lais of Marie de France