#tell

She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#storytelling #storytelling

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth? ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#storytelling #storytelling

Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#symbolism #the-old-man-and-the-sea #storytelling

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture. ↗

— Erwin Raphael McManus

#storytelling #storytelling

Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness. ↗

— Noam Shpancer

#storytelling #storytelling

Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#fairytale #micha #storytelling

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#protest #truth-telling #wit

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#truth-telling #revolution

...And you, you better run because i'm going to destroy you for what you've taken from me. ↗

— Samantha Young

#revenge #threat #vengeance #revenge

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#complicity #dissent #protest #truth-telling #silence