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“Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.”
Conan O'Brien
“The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.”
Craig Bruce
“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.”
Stephen Jay Gould
“Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.”
Italo Calvino
“The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?”
Judith Hayes
“Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.”
Salman Rushdie
“Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'”
Colin Powell
“The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTGalaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck”
Douglas Adams
“A drink precedes a story.”
Irish Proverb
