All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
– Margaret Atwood
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- She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them. – RM Drake
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- There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. – Willa Cather
- Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don’t like repeating myself (insert chuckle here). – NRN
- Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships… – Margaret Atwood
- I don’t want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds’ worth of half babies – Margaret Atwood
- If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking. – Margaret Atwood
- Perhaps he was merely being friendly. Perhaps he saw the look on my face and mistook it for something else. Really what I wanted was the cigarette. – Margaret Atwood
- I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we’re about to do something harmful, to someone else. – Margaret Atwood
- They will not let you have peace, they don’t want you to have anything they don’t have themselves. – Margaret Atwood
- By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in you, I believe you’re there, I believe you into being. – Margaret Atwood
- But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. – Margaret Atwood
- But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. – Margaret Atwood
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. – Jane Jacobs
- In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link. – Johnny Rich
- I didn’t cry. Real things don’t make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I’m like most civilised humans. – Glen Duncan
- Guys are always confused by how soft and sentimental they are. – Sarah Miller
- His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation. – Rudyard Kipling
- Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart. – Amit Kalantri
- Commercial comedy’s often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who’s naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous. – David Foster Wallace
- Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau
- I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. – David Foster Wallace
- I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. – David Foster Wallace
- You are enough, you are worth it, Worth every ballad, worth every word, every action. – R YS Perez
- Don’t forget – no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell. – Charles de Lint
- I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back. – Margaret Mitchell
- Talk only if it’s worth, else it harms your worth only. – Vikrmn
- She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Leaders are solutions conscious. They don’t complain. You would find them repeating this common question; -œhow will it be done, and by who? – Israelmore Ayivor
- you find yourself repeating, -˜They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays. – Julian Barnes
- Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them. – Deyth Banger
- Ben & Jerry’s Lifestyle: Lots of options, exciting flavors and never repeating a scoop. – CS James
- Life’s experiences will just keep repeating themselves unless you continually add some new experiences to enliven your days. – Steven Redhead
- … the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! – EA Bucchianeri
- The future is listening you, so be aware of what are you are repeating in your mind. – Maddy Malhotra
- As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons. – Harper Lee