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Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story. — Jay McInerney

Ah, yes" he says, "The old story: 'Boy eats girl. — Laura Bradley Rede

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. — Ruth Rendell

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. — Margaret Thatcher

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy. — G. Willow Wilson

And then what did you do, Lord Oliver? Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard. — Jessica Day George

The old age old story of Yin & Yang ... Every positive side has a negative side too. Which are you? — Timothy Pina

It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world. — Luke Donald

I didn't read this book
I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans. — William McKeen

The old buzzard told me his life's story. I only remember that it was interesting and unusual; I've forgotten all the details. — Hermann Hesse

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended. — T. S. Eliot

Your old story is not the only story. — Shann Vander Leek

This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books. — Jonathan Galassi

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins

It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old. — Dennis Rodman

The first story I finished was when I was six years old. — J.K. Rowling

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all. — Frances Power Cobbe

Incorruptibility by money is the old story ... Now it's incorruptibility by media. — Leon Wieseltier

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story. — Richard Siken

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out. — Eli Wallach

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now. — John Crowley

[From Old Mortality]
The woman in the picture ... was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times. — Katherine Anne Porter

The World is a very old place, so you'll never be able to tell a completely original story — Wally Lamb

...New Beginning to the same old story — Neal Shusterman

My name is Magnus Chase. I'm sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed. — Rick Riordan

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. — Fish

'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story. — Ben Lovett

The award for the craziest story I ever heard goes to an old woman in Chicago who told me that her cat was planning to assassinate the president. — Adam J. Wright

I reinvented myself. I acquired a taste for evil. I found I have a talent for it. And I murdered the old me. — Mark Kirkbride

Aamah would sometimes remind them that the story of an old disputte should be retold only when no aftertaste of bitterness remains upon the tongue. — Catherine M. Wilson

I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried. — Drew Carey

Next time! In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come? — Helen Hunt Jackson

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background. — Kathy Reichs

Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. — Matt Mullenweg

New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours. — Alex Morritt

The old adage that 'there are two sides to every story' is not true. There is a story for every storyteller. — Kenneth Eade

What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form. — Henry James

And don't give me the same old story:
"We're in Mexico. Pray."
You'd be better off taking a snake rattle. — Carlos Fuentes

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text. — Jack O'Connell

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison — Fannie Flagg

The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well? — Ayn Rand

The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image. — Amit Kalantri

And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the top — John Ajvide Lindqvist

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way. — Vivian Mercier

The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie) — Dan Carruthers

It's the same old story, all you think about is money. — Rafael Nadal

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me. — Randy Johnson

As I started to read the 100 year old letters their story unwound and I began to share their passion for life and the love they had for one another. — Mark Wardlaw

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened. — Anne Rice

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old. — Greg Rucka

I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it! — Ashly Lorenzana

Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men. — Amit Kalantri

Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story. — Nikki Giovanni

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. — Paul A. Samuelson

It was an old story so rubbed with retelling that the edges were blurry. — Helen Simonson

Q. How many docents does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Two. One to remove the old lightbulb and the other to tell the story behind it. — Ron Brackin

Every time you tell your old story, you reactivate the negative emotions/vibes as a whole new experience in your body. — Catherine Garrett

It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention. — Tim Wu

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that. — David Soul

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. — John Updike

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning. — Satish Kumar

Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late. — J. Tonzelli

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind. — Travis Tritt

The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold. — Stephen Harker

I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera. — Julie Orringer