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#telling

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You don't ask questions of an attic


Barbara Kingsolver


#profound #telling #dreams

power is not divided equally ,differences in any form leads to destruction of every country... we came to lead we r being leaded we came to earn we r being earned


palash


#truth-telling #equality

The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never carry on right through the point where whatever it is that threatens your life actually takes it -- and get anybody to believe you. The world is full of sceptics.


Beryl Markham


#storytelling #experience

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places - the activities that are intimately associated with boredom - are already extinct in the cities and are declining in the country as well. With this the gift for listening is lost and the community of listeners disappears. For storytelling is always the art of repeated stories, and this art is lost when the stories are no longer retained.


Walter Benjamin


#listening #relaxation #storytelling #art

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.


Geoff Ryman


#freedom #freshness #healing #honesty #literature

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.


Priya Ardis


#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #merlin

Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them." "They do. You just can't see them right," Betsy Basilstalk said with a grin. "All customs agents have them, otherwise, why would people agree to stand in line and be peered at and inspected? We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say, lines on maps are silly. Where you live, the awful machinery is smaller, harder to see. Less honest, that's all. Whereas Rupert here? He's as honest as they come. Does what it says on the box.


Catherynne M. Valente


#customs #obedience #travel #truth-telling #home

I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than others–above all, those who don’t sit down in a chair like mere spectators letting their lives happen in front of them, but they take risks as heroes do, experiencing, living, becoming the main character—but no matter what, we all have at least one story to tell.


Merce Cardus


#life-and-living #risks #storytelling #life

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.


Vera Nazarian


#fiction #fictional #life #meaning #pattern

We tend to be judged because of our actions.


Roxy Writer


#truth #truth-telling #life






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