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• There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Library, Use

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing

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• To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

  Joyce Maynard

  Share, Worthwhile, Endeavor

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• Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

  Salman Rushdie

  Individual, Our Lives, Discrete

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• The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

  Irving Stone

  Love, Romance, Before Marriage

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• Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

  Stephen King

  World, Relics

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Hero, Cheer Up

  "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982-1986.

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• Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Halloween, Autumn

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• Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Long, Insightful

  Letter to Harrison Blake, 16 Nov. 1857 See Pascal 1; Woodrow Wilson 25

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• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Morning, Heart, Dark

  "Interview: Michael Morpurgo, Running Wild". Interview With Lisa Bower, www.altblackpool.co.uk. February 27, 2017.

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• The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, War

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Mind, Quality

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• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

  Orson Welles

  Happiness, Writing, Optimistic

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.221, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Dark, Doors

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• You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.

  Nicky Cruz

  Opinion, Arguing

  Nicky Cruz (2017). “Run Baby Run”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Fishing, People

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

  C. S. Lewis

  Events, Earth, Birth

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• Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball

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• A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Children, Powerful

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• Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Gardening, Momentum

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• The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

  Tom Peters

  Leader, Levels, Masters

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• I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Blooming, Happens

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• There is no story that is not true.

  Chinua Achebe

  Abomination, Things Fall Apart Important, Things Fall Apart Okonkwo

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.99, Heinemann

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• Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

  Marianne Williamson

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Giving Up

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• It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Different, Faces

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jun 28, 2010

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