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I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together. — Alice Walker

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it. — Gary Crowley

Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end. — Selena Kitt

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too. — Sarah Dessen

When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story. — Diane Setterfield

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do. — Ann Patchett

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy.
My Story — Celine Dion

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't. — Dan Yaccarino

the only thing
required
to be
a woman
is to
identify
as one.

- period, end of story. — Amanda Lovelace

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. — Byron Katie

We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end. — Harlan Ellison

'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital. — Walker Percy

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. — Clive Barker

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story. — Henry Cloud

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart. — Susan Sontag

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book. — A.D. Posey

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell. — M. Kirin

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

Be true to yourself and to the culture you were born into. Tell your story as only you can. — William Zinsser

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

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story. — Kevin Conroy

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story. — Sonya Hartnett

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write. — Nell Freudenberger

A man's story is worth telling only if the truth he discovers is greater than the pain that led him to seek it. — Alan Cohen

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening. — Michelle Richmond

I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written. — Piroska Rodriguez

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have. — Charles Baxter

I think the story only really comes alive on the set. — Mora Stephens

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it. — Tony Robbins

99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story. — Ron DeLegge II

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed. — Edward Gorey

That's the problem with the Christmas story: most of the roles are for boys. The only girl is there because men can't have babies. — Bryn Greenwood

People kept on longing for meaning and hope, but the annals of the past are a muddy story of chaos only. — Richard Flanagan

Jesus Christ is God in human flesh, and the story of His life, death, and resurrection is the only Good News the world will ever hear. — Billy Graham

It's a question of wanting to know how the story turns out. And one can only know that about one story, ever. — Caleb Crain

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. — Karen Kain

Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds — M.F. Moonzajer

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it. — Leah Stewart

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it. — Barkhad Abdi

The first thing I learned that day was this: what you think you know about a person is only a fraction of the story. — Gavin Extence

The truth is only slightly less interesting than the story. — Kristopher Jansma

The end of her life was only the beginning of her story.
Sweet Sleep — Kim Cormack

If there's no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173) — Heidi W. Durrow

It might be the end of this chapter. But, for us, our story is only just beginning. — Zoe Sugg

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite ... — Christina Westover

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too. — Michael Pollan

The story of Genesis could only be a poorly written misconception that put needless blame on women. Estella — Ira Smith

Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over. — Haruki Murakami

Write the story that only you can write. — Francisco Arcellana

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today. — Martha Alderson

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment -daniel grigori (fallen) — Daniel Grigori

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth. — Rumi

Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series. — Isaac Hempstead-Wright

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws

Maybe the only way our story can end is varying degrees of sad. — Courtney Summers

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know. — Robert Breault

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two. — James Rollins

Once
God wrote a story
that shook the heaven to the very core.
Love was the only language used;
You and I
were the only characters. — Subhan Zein

I often stood and stared into those tunnels and thought about what happened there; how I was separated from it only by time. - The Procession — Benjamin Brindise

Only God can write the end of your story. — Mitch Albom

The only thing that remained consistent over the years was my ability and enthusiasm to tell the story. — Herb Trimpe

The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story. — Elizabeth Banks

Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story — Kat Howard

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me. — Theodora Goss

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

I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating. — Simon Toyne

So many went on a quest to tame her,
The only man to win her heart was the one
Who was also free. — Nikki Rowe

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. — Anais Nin

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63) — Sheldon B. Kopp

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate. — Michael Arrington

The only way to know life is living it. — John Northcutt Young

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer. — Duane Michals

We need only two persons in our life - just you and me; and I think we can make a good story together. — Raj Singh

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story. — Eric Bana

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary. — John Yau

I slip away into the night, I won't have much to take. Only the story of this life, with you, I leave behind — S.L. Northey

You said this was only the beginning,
I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story. — Tanzy Sayadi

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly. — George Washington

Never again will a single story be told as though its the only one. — John Berger

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen. — John Irving

If you listen to only one side of the story, you are simply a coward. — Ben Tolosa

If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to. — Thea Harrison

He looked exactly the same when he was alive, only he was vertical. — Jack Trevor Story

Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read. — Susan Isaacs

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer. — Jean Little

In the end it will not matter how we have told our story, but only how God sees it. — Daniel I. Block

A good story is a journey...the destination is only where it ends. — Alan Smithee

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story. — Don Hertzfeldt

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever. — Ashay Abbhi

All life is only allegory and the real story is not here ... — Richard Flanagan

Scars are badges of strength and courage. They tell the story of what we have endured. Only survivors wear them. — Kaki Warner

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal. — Julie Klassen

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy. — Joe Hill

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck

The only story my grandfather tells me about his days in the NFL is how much better he was than me. — Clay Matthews III

You got a story to tell, and you are the only one who can tell it. Don't give up! — Neil Gaiman

Follow your heart, includes your responsibilities in everyday life; else heart will have only regrets at the end — Sandhya Jane