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#story

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Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. ↗


— Michael Shermer


#perceptions #storytelling #perception

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. ↗


— Chuck Palahniuk


#history #history-repeating-itself #patterns #free

It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good. ↗


— Isaac Marion


#the-unknowable #effort

He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them. ↗


— Amy Hempel


#short-story #short-story

- Excuse me gentlemen, I know it is a little disturbing, because tomorrow is the end of the world, and that man is dead, but still…he hadn’t paid. Can we arrange the matter somehow? – she looks the gathered with endless anxiously and still a little angry face. ↗


— Alexandar Tomov


#short-story

Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket? ↗


— T.C. Boyle


#short-story #with-out-a-hero #short-story

You can fix anything but a blank page. ↗


— Nora Roberts


#storytelling #writing #write

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. ↗


— Edgar Allan Poe


#writing #short-story

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken. ↗


— Ernest Hemingway


#short-story

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. ↗


— Raymond Chandler


#hard-boiled #santa-anas #short-story






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