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- Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.
- Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, Unshelved, 09-14-08
- For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
- There is properly no history, only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
- Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
- Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
- Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
- John Barth (1930 - )
- Some people make headlines while others make history.
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
- History never looks like history when you are living through it.
- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
- Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.
- Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory
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