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What we want is a story that starts with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel GoldwynThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
maya angelouI cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
walter scottAnd thereby hangs a tale.
william shakespeareThis story will never go down.
Henry FieldingSoft as some song divine, thy story flows.
homerAnd what so tedious as a twice-told tale.
homerIt is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.
For seldom shall she hear a tale so sad, so tender, yet so true.
william shenstoneIt was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned.
Chris stapletonAnimation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
walt disneyAll their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read; which goes on forever; in which every chapter is better than the one before.
C. S. LewisHalloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.
Michael Dirda