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• All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

  Harvey Cox

  Needs, Storytelling, Live By

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• The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Doors, Self, Sky

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• Another story must begin!

  Victor Hugo

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• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Children, Dragons

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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us... or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else's "story" to the point where you start writing it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Writing, Caring

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 03, 2014

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• After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Writing, Mind

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• We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Animal, Trying

  "In Awe of Words". The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University, 1930.

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• Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

  LeCrae

  Roles, Fiction, Casts

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• The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

  Melody Beattie

  New Year, Book, Writing

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, p.1, Hazelden Publishing

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• Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

  Robert Moss

  Hunting, Forever, May

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• I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'

  Stephen King

  Writing, Creating, House

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• We owe it to each other to tell stories.

  Neil Gaiman

  Storytelling

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

  Richard Peck

  Writing, Light

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

  Steven Spielberg

  Movie, Inspiring, Positivity

  "Science Fiction in Steven Spielberg's Suburbia". Interview with Chris Hodenfield, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

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• I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.

  Alice Munro

  Moving, Writing, Mean

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Oct 01, 2014

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• Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

  Salman Rushdie

  Censorship, Crime, Ability

  "Salman Rushdie Discusses The Role Of The Novel In The Era Of 24-Hour News In Talk At CU-Boulder" by Joe Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.

  Aliko Dangote

  Real, People, Risk

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• God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Epic, Glorious, Ifs

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• As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Passion, Kids, Thinking

  "Q&A: Changeling Writer J. Michael Straczynski". Interview with Gilbert Cruz, content.time.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Strong, Hurt, Real

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• If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

  Max Lucado

  Pain, Thinking, Privilege

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

  Tim O'Brien

  Memories, Past, Night

  Tim O'Brien (1990). “The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction”

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