Famous quotes containing the word story:
“Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life storya story that is basically without meaning or pattern.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
“My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs;
She swore, in faith twas strange, twas passing strange;
Twas pitiful, twas wondrous pitiful.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chickens wing.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)
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