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• One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.

  George Harrison

  Divorce, People, Gossip

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the other way around when the story grows from the body and spirit of humankind. In any case, we are a story, each of us, a bundle of stories, some as false as phantom islands but believed in nevertheless. Some might be true.

  Linda Hogan

  Dream, Islands, Stories

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• With my friends, it was always essentially true stories. That's how I always felt about doing King-Cat. This is something that really happened, whether it makes me look good or bad, or someone else look good or bad. This is what happened, and it's my job in life to write it down. Nowadays, I'm a lot more conscientious about it. I'm not out to attack somebody in print.

  John Porcellino

  Writing, Print

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

  George Mikes

  Liars, Dirty, Stories

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• Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Romance, Stories

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• If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

  Thomas Hardy

  Stories, Moral, Parables

  Thomas Hardy (2014). “Thomas Hardy: Selected Prose, Volume I”, p.65, Anthem Press

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• True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Believe, Borders

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• If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.

  Frank Iero

  Cookies, Stories, Calories

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• Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads,
  I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt.
  LAPD, the nurse asked did my knee hurt?
  I was in pain, little Martians tryin' ta take my brain,
  Hospitals came, detectives wrote down my name.
  I was to blame, my life never been the same.
  A true story; I tell ya, it'll never bore me.
  My classmate died, my other friend named Cory
  Drinkin' 40s, he jumped out the project window,
  Stabbed himself with a yellow number 2 pencil.

  Kool Keith

  Hurt, Pain, Rap

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• True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

  Raymond Queneau

  Stories, Hunger, Deals

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• To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

  Ben Okri

  Perfect, Mind, Stories

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• The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

  Laurent Binet

  Writing, Giving, Worry

  Laurent Binet (2012). “HHhH: A Novel”, p.25, Macmillan

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• I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

  Virginia Woolf

  Notebook, Phrases, Stories

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.137, Virginia Woolf

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• Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Betrayal, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.171, Penguin

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• The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

  Margaret Atwood

  Needs, Stories, Vicious

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

  Richard Matheson

  Real, Vampire, Stories

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

  Harold Brodkey

  Long Ago, People, Stories

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• I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Real, Long, Waiting

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• Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

  Harriet Lerner

  Stories, Matter, Storytelling

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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• A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

  Daniel Handler

  Horse, Mistake, Media

  "The Vile Village". Book by Daniel Handler, 2001.

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• Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT...the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

  Timothy Keller

  Book, Teaching, Thinking

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• We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

  Benito Mussolini

  Responsibility, Stories, Hierarchy

  "Through Fascism to World Power: A History of the Revolution in Italy" by Ion Smeaton Munro, Books for Libraries Press, 1933.

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• My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

  John Green

  Responsibility, Hopeful, Trying

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• What I love about the Bible is that it's a group of stories but it's all telling one main story. It's about Jesus Christ. The story is not about me. That takes a lot of the pressure off me, but it also puts the responsibility on me to point people to who the true story is about.

  Matt Diaz

  Jesus, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• “Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Mean, Stories

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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