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To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories.


Shogo Oketani


#history #japan #japan

In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again.


Clarissa Pinkola Estés


#medicine

Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages.


Jennifer Murgia


#angel #star #storytelling #writing #storytelling

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.


Lloyd Alexander


#storytelling

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.


Cecelia Ahern


#storytelling #storytelling

Reality denied comes back to haunt.


Philip K. Dick


#history #psychology #self-deception #behavior

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.


Gil Asakawa


#japan #japanese-american #language #japan

The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. 'God had made us master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile peoples.' From the vantage point of the colonizing episteme, the evil is always disorder rather than unjust order; anarchy rather than control, darkness rather than pallor. To plead otherwise is to write 'carte blanche for chaos.' Yet those who wear the mark of chaos, the skins of darkness, the genders of unspeakable openings -- those Others of Order keep finding voice. But they continue to be muted by the bellowing of the dominant discourse.


Catherine Keller


#colonialism #feminism #history #nature #oppression

Wherever you go..., you'll see Heaven and Hell on every side... in us. Look for them and you'll soon know them. There on your left, Hell shuffles by, carrying a reluctant, gloomy chicken, his only comrade. There on your right, Heaven spring past, singing - a lunatic, a little too much for civilized contact. Just the way it always was.


Daniel Quinn


#hell #purgatory #afterlife

My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.


Diane Setterfield


#storytelling #storytelling






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