“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
“The Same Story,” p. 63
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
“Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.”
Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City
Source: Bright Lights, Big City
“Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain
Somewhere in ear-shot for the story’s end.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Responsibilities - Introduction http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1572/ <br class="br">Responsibilities (1914)
Norman Maclean (1902–1990) American author and scholar
A River Runs Through It (1976)
Context: Everything that was to happen had happened and everything that was to be seen had gone. It was now one of those moments when nothing remains but an opening in the sky and a story — and maybe something of a poem. Anyway, as you possibly remember, there are these lines in front of the story:
“You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“Three stories high, long, dull, and old,
As great lords' stories often are.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) English dramatist and writer
The Maid of the Moor, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“All love stories are the same.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept