Best One Story Quotes
64 One Story quotes by 55 unique authors
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There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what…
— Brian Andreas
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When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad…
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.
— Sylvia Day
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I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one…
— Michael Cunningham
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I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single…
— Nicolas Roeg
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The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
— Bruno Mars
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I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in…
— John Steinbeck
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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to…
— John Steinbeck
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She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A…
— Charles Dickens
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...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one…
— Nick Flynn
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No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to…
— Donald Miller
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A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing…
— Salman Rushdie
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We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth…
— Jeanette Winterson
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There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one…
— Charles de Lint
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How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we…
— Wendell Berry
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Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.
— Ivan Doig
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*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book…
— Donald Miller
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I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
— John Steinbeck
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Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends…
— Mitch Albom
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I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the…
— Virginia Woolf
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Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!" Amy was disgusted. "We had…
— Gordon Korman
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The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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