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“Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.”

Stories Half Taste Vices Suits Pleasant Epigrams

“A romantic relationship might very well have been initiated by God, but the moment our focus moves from our Prince to a human love story is the moment we cease to guard our sanctuary, and our entire foundation for success crumbles into ashes. A relationship that leads us closer to our Prince and carefully protects our inner sanctuary is the key to discovering romance as it was truly intended to be...a little taste of heaven on earth.”

Source: Authentic Beauty: The Shaping of a Set-Apart Young Woman

“I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.”

World Book Matter Stories Girl Drink Taste Offers

Book:Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (light novel)

Source: Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (light novel)

“I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.”

Needs Stories Chance Morning Sea Taste Mouths Rivers Fishes Newspapers Boat Lakes Fishing Every Morning Fisherman

Author:Ed Zern

“As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.”

Source: The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford

“One day we wake up and we are broken. We taste it in our morning kiss. Our mirror tells us the same stories in separate hours: things will never be the same.”

Stories Hours Morning Broken Taste One Day Kissing Wake Up Mirrors

Author:Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

“The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.”

Ideas Different Stories Taste Journalist Sensibility Different Tastes

Author:Jill Abramson

“And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.”

Ifs Feels Hard Stories Would Be Able Young Talking Reader Taste Roots Senses Imagery Young Writers

Author:Adriana Trigiani

“... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.”

Stories Humanity Social Fiction Novel Crazy Taste Longing Rational Immortal Short Story Heroism Behaviour Obstinacy Portraiture

Book:Stories

Source: Stories

“I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.”

“To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.”

Needs Real Stories Actors Strong Taste Tragedy Epic Great Actors

Author:Luiz Bolognesi

“Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.”

Ifs Wells I Can Character Stories Development Taste Plot Resolution

Author:Alexis Denisof

“Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want to tell. In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts.”

Thinking Way Want Trying Different Play Stories Night Term Regret Taste Best Way Opening Syllables Try Your Best Changes Over Time Opening Night

Author:Stephen Karam

“I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.”

Thinking Needs Stories Bigs Film Taste Weight Big Questions Overloaded

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Feels Important Stories Wanted Walks Streets Taste Smell Who I Am Cop I Want You Crackheads

Author:Nas

“I have eaten too many types of cuisines and food. For me, every dish has their own taste and story. I can't pick the best dish I've ever had, simply because I enjoy all food types!”

I Can Stories Enjoy Type Taste Picks Dishes Cuisine

Author:Rinrin Marinka

“Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover You know who I am by the songs that I sing I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover Who cares what tomorrow shall bring I can't be contented with yesterday's glory I can't live on promises winter to spring Today is my moment and now is my story I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing”

“You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so that they no longer cared for the taste of the pale wind, no for love or lust, nor to make new songs nor to sing old ones, nor for any of the other animal things they believed they had brought with them out of the rain forests al the bottom of time--though in fact, so my uncle told me, those things brought them”

Knows Facts Stories Song Stars Animal Race Half Wind Taste Rain Bottom Ancient Lust Forests Als Pale Uncles New Songs Love Or Lust

Book:Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

Source: Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”

Kind Stories Together Taste Scene Normal Meaningless Thread Good Story Wasted Time Meaning Life Forgettable

Author:Donald Miller

“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”

People Knows Want Stills Book Stories Dream Lying Stars Blood Teaching Sweet Taste Madness Pleasant Folly Individualism Harmonious Bewilderment

Book:Demian: A Dual-Language Book

Source: Demian: A Dual-Language Book

“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.”

People Men Has Beens Stills Book Stories Dream Stars Blood Teaching Sweet Taste Madness Chaos Ignorant Pleasant Nonsense Deceiving Seekers Harmonious

Author:Hermann Hesse

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