"Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told."

-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Stories Quotes

“I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.”

Source : "Giuliana Rancic a 'wreck' before breast cancer reveal" by, www.today.com. October 18, 2011.
“Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!”

Source : "Forrest Gump". m.imdb.com. 1994.
“He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.”
“Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.”

Source : "A point of view".
“Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.”

Source : "Thomas Mann and his family". Book by Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Collins, p. 187, 1989.
“It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.”
“People protect what they love.”

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