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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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And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

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