If you think the story has a sad ending, it's because it's not over yet. ― Emily Henry, Beach Read

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Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell. — Amal Clooney

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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. -George R. R. Martin

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Story—sacred and profane—is perhaps the main cohering force in human life. - Jonathan Gottschall

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If you own this story you get to write the ending. — Brené Brown

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But how could you live and have no story to tell? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.― Maya Angelou

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Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story. — David McCullough

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So, write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can. – Neil Gaiman

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I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again. - Richard Ben Cramer

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