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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.

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

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  1. It’s all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? – Willa Cather
  2. The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. – Willa Cather
  3. The only person you can fiercely hate is the person you have loved once fiercely, with your whole heart. – Anonymous
  4. It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain. – Willa Cather
  5. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. – Willa Cather
  6. He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer. – Willa Cather
  7. Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world’s hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman’s tenderness. – Willa Cather
  8. Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer. – Willa Cather
  9. It’s by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another. – Willa Cather
  10. Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger. – Willa Cather
  11. Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. – Willa Cather
  12. Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them. – Willa Cather
  13. Prayers said by good people are always good prayers – Willa Cather
  14. The old man smiled. ‘I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived. – Willa Cather
  15. The old man smiled. ‘I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived. – Willa Cather
  16. It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit. – Larry Kramer
  17. The Djojobojo Prophecy doesn’t just tell you WHAT happened and WHERE it happened…it tells you WHY it happened! – Yvonne B Murtha
  18. All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. – Margaret Atwood
  19. Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don’t like repeating myself (insert chuckle here). – NRN
  20. People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves. – Tim Kreider
  21. Life’s experiences will just keep repeating themselves unless you continually add some new experiences to enliven your days. – Steven Redhead
  22. There are three things I love, three things I spend time with, three things I treat alike: family; friends; and books. – Ogwo David Emenike
  23. There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon
  24. Three quarters of faith is boldness.Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence.Three quarters of love is kindness. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  25. Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It’s the trifecta. – April Genevieve Tucholke
  26. Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured. – Sri Aurobindo
  27. Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured. – Sri Aurobindo
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  31. I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories. – Jim C Hines
  32. Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves. – Karen Healey
  33. Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman
  34. That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs. – Shannon L Alder
  35. Do not cry,- she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. -œDo not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end. – Melina Marchetta
  36. Ben & Jerry’s Lifestyle: Lots of options, exciting flavors and never repeating a scoop. – CS James
  37. I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three. – Sharad Vivek Sagar
  38. You don’t always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing. – Abby Fabiaschi
  39. Dr. Suess said: ‘Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened..’ I tell my dates: ‘Don’t cry because it happened, smile because it’s over – Josh Stern
  40. And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. – John Green

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