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"Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, 'Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.' He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought 'This story isn't too long.' But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, 'Uh-oh, this story is getting long.' But then the story was over, and I said to myself 'You know, that story wasn't too long after all.' I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again." »Rogers Turrentine
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"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision." »Penn Jillette
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"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between." »Diane Ackerman
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"Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us." »Rabbi David Wolpe
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"There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." »Mark Twain
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"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death." »Oscar Wilde
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"A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul." »Eric Pio
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"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality." »The Divine Pymander
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape." »A. C. Benson
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"Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?" »Howard Zinn
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"Now comes the mystery." »Henry Ward Beecher, last words
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"The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye." »Elizabeth Bowen
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""It's your story, run with it"" »Tom Zegan
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"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it." »Rabindranath Tagore, Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.
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"mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated." »Larry McMurtry, "Flim Flam - Essays on Hollywood"
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"The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal" »Sir Compton MacKenzie
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"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." »Albert Einstein
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"We are the hero of our own story." »Mary McCarthy
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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." »Oscar Wilde
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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery." »Mary B. Yates
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"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." »Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail." »Philip
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"Life is too short for a long story." »Mary Wortley Montagu
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"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it." »Horace Mann
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"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story." »Walter Cronkite
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