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There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips.

— Elsa Lanchester

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

— T. S. Eliot

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me.

— John Searles

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

— Ben Okri

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

— Roddy Doyle

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

— Harvey Pekar

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.

— Rachel Kushner

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

— William Throsby Bridges

Some stories are true that never happened.

— Elie Wiesel

✗Opposing Perspectives

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

— Willa Cather

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

— Marcus Aurelius