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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. ↗

— Czesław Miłosz

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The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

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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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