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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

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We tell ourselves stories in order to live. ↗

— Joan Didion

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People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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If you can't beat them. Join them ↗

— Jim Henson

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Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't. ↗

— Sandra Dallas

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Stories...are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words. ↗

— Catherynne Valente

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Obscurity is never a virtue. ↗

— Roald Dahl

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Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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