#tories

Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again. ↗

— Téa Obreht

#stories #death

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. ↗

— Mark Twain

#know #particularly #people #stories #tell

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#change #diaries #embracing #incredible #instance

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#brings #certainly #could #deal #great

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#did #emotions #follow #head #heart

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#beginning #being #being human #end #epic

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#certain #controlled #countries #covenant #envisaged

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#awareness #big #communicating #crisis #donation

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#being #compelling #compounds #fact #know

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#disagree #listen #made #ones #stories