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Story Quotes by Isak Dinesen
- I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and…
- The divine art is the story.
- Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.
- Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of…
- All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.
- I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make…
- To be a person is to have a story to tell.
- Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed,…
- All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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