#tory

All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he would be something less than that, an albino cockroach, a louse. The dungeon did not udnerstand the idea of as tory. The dungeon was static, eternal, black and a story needed motion adn tiem and light. He felt his story slipping away from him, beocming inconsequential, ceasing to be. He has no story. There was no story. He was not a man. There was no man here. There was only the dungeon, and the slithering dark. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#medical-humanities #narrative #story #men

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#education #history #change

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it ↗

— Bob Ross

#art-history #fun #humor #art

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man. ↗

— Niall Ferguson

#financial-history #history #money #money

I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#money

Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice. . . . It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life. ↗

— Teresa Jordan

#story #art

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#bookstores #history #literature #philosophy #reading

DNA has memory! ↗

— Isaiah Washington

#dna #history #science #change

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. ↗

— Annette Simmons

#illusions #interdependence #ritual #stories #storytelling

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people. ↗

— Charles Ray

#culture #storytelling #writing #art