#tory

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#american #culture #grew #i #storytelling

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. ↗

— William R. Alger

#god #highest #league #peace #secret

If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#affecting #american #american society #assumed #because

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.' ↗

— Woody Allen

#asked #contraception #girl #i #me

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead. ↗

— Sally Kellerman

#boston #called #i #lead #lived

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#fiction #first #first time #historical #historical fiction

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #invented #journalist #lousy #never

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#civil war #forward #history #ii #non

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#daily #daily life #history #horse #incorporated

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory? ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#did #failure #help #inadequate #information