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Storyteller Inspirational Quotes (75)

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It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.
Luther Standing Bear
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Joy always came after pain.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.
Leonid Andreyev
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Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?
Leonid Andreyev
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When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped men get shot.
Jessica Hagedorn
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I also like Western classical music and jazz.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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All perishes, all decays, all is born again.
Leonid Andreyev
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Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.
Leonid Andreyev
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The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams and it was shining only for itself.
Leonid Andreyev
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Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.
Leonid Andreyev
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The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Luther Standing Bear
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My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.
Jessica Hagedorn
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We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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How slow life is, how violent hope is.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.
Leonid Andreyev
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Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.
Leonid Andreyev
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There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.
Jessica Hagedorn
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Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
Jessica Hagedorn
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The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.
Luther Standing Bear
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After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.
Luther Standing Bear
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I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
Jessica Hagedorn
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People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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