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My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone. — James Patterson
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order… — Todd Rundgren
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. — Jonathan Sacks
We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature.… — David Suzuki
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found… — Tad Williams
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. — James Wolcott
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. — V.S. Naipaul
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. — Joan Didion
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. — Laurie Anderson
And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it… — William Goldman
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. — Albert Camus
Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg… — Tom Holt
As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At… — Martha C. Nussbaum
It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us… — Jon Katz
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of… — Joan Didion
Some would ask what country am I from? We ara supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana,… — Thomas Friedman
Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the… — Rohinton Mistry
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity… — Peggy Noonan
There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing… — Jodi Picoult
All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to… — Nora Raleigh Baskin
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we… — Rebecca Solnit
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us. — Rabih Alameddine
The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man… — Stephen King
For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear… — Michael Ondaatje
In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence… — Albert Camus

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