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Having breakfast with Mustapha and family. Stories of wagtail (not to catch them or they’ll commit suicide). Biblical stories of the Hoopoe (huduud…
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So I’m sitting at a Taziry Eco Village in the Siwa oasis. I’ve been thinking of a new story type. I don’t know if this has been done before but I wan…
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She congratulates him on the reward for success [I believe this may be a book (in English)]. The next sentence emphatically tells him that they will…
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Florence is an individual, a one-wayer, unwilling to simply float down the river in hopes of returning back to where she started. Find other stories,…
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe April 20, 1841: It's hard to imagine a time before detective stories, but just…
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You don't have anythingif you don't have the stories. Leslie Marmon Silko March 5, 1948: Native-American author Leslie Marmon Silko was born on the e…
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Released in 2004: In 2003, ordinary American citizen Mike Shiley created his own press pass and cashed in airline miles to fly to Iraq. Unofficially …
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Sgt. Ken Layson (Wilsonville, OR): We're finding out that units that have departed the area are dumping serviceable items instead of turning it back …
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Flickr | CHUCKage Harold Simmons Wants More Waste to Fill His Dump by Sonia Smith | Apr 5 2012, 2:59 PM Email this If you build it, will they come du…
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sharing stories by the fire watching my son lose his fear of water the trip to ft Ross, Jenner, the rivers end, the grassy coastal drive the diarrhea…
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This title is a play on words (dual meaning of the word: cover) between the assumptions made about books (e.g. stories) and the assumptions made abou…
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Literature is humanity talking to itself. Norman Rush Happy 81st birthday, Norman Rush! The author joined the Peace Corps in his mid-forties and serv…
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Happy endings are a luxury of fiction. Trudi Canavan Australian writer Trudi Canavan (born October 23, 1969) creates fantasy worlds for her readers, …
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What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities. Fahmida Riaz Happy birthday, Fahmi…
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One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them. Lorrie Moore January 13, 1957: Happy 57th birthday, Lorrie Moore! Her dark, …
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. Elizabeth Gaskell Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell (b…
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. Kara Walker Kara Walker (bo…
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Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told. Wendell Berry…
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A good book isn't written, it's rewritten. Phyllis A. Whitney Phyllis A. Whitney (born September 9, 1903) was raised by American parents in Japan, Ch…
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When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. William Saroyan William S…
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There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. Janet Frame August 28, 1924: Janet Frame was a patient a…
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Each story represents a canopic jar (points on the compass). They are discovered by the pro tag int he well of souls. He initially discovers that h…
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What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities. Fahmida Riaz Happy birthday, Fahmi…
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. Guy de Maupassant August 5, 1850…
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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the mus…
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.…
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That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away ever…
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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. Hilary Mantel May 2, 1536: It's been 477 years since Anne Boleyn …
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Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stor…
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Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. China Miéville Happy…
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To survive, you must tell stories. Umberto Eco Happy birthday, Umberto Eco! The Name of the Rose author's surname is supposedly an acronym of this La…
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I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection. Jamie Lee Curtis Happy birthday, Jamie Lee Curti…
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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind. Tahir Shah Tahir Shah (born November 16, 1966) is the author of…
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. Friedrich Nietzsche Ja…
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I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself. Amy Hempel December 14, 1951: Happy 52nd birthday, Amy Hempel! Besides wr…
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I cannot let the fear of the past color the future. Julie Kagawa Julie Kagawa (born October 12, 1982) is the bestselling author of fantasy and young …
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I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me. Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson (born September 16, 1948) is a British children’s author, pl…
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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. A.A. Milne August 21, 1920: A.A. Mil…
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His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. Laura Hillenbrand May 15, 1967: Happ…
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This is one of the stories mentioned in Bob Brier's lecture on Joseph and his possible verification through Ancient Egyptian texts. The ancient egyp…
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If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Elmore Leonard Elmore Leonard (born October 11, 1925) packed his popular westerns and crime thrillers with g…
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Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word. Debbie Macomber Debbie Macomber (…
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. Neil Gaiman Happy birthday, Neil Gaiman!…
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Clichés so often befall vain people. Ann Beattie September 8, 1947: Happy birthday, Ann Beattie! The American author writes keenly observed short sto…