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“A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how t...”
“He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.”
“We had practiced bits and pieces of his story, but never the whole thing. In fact, I never heard Michael recount his own tale from start to finish.I wonder now whether this was because the full ver...”
“. . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied.”
“In a storytelling event with the theme 'My First High', he felt sad listening to everybody's literal high moments.He had never been high before.Today, he had never been this low before.”
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit.""Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You can have it. I'm giving it to you. After I'm gone, write...”
“Infinite possibilities exist within the art of storytelling. To me, it is nothing less than the magic of creation.”
“A story that must be told never forgives silence.”
“Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.”
“The stories that contain badness are not bad stories. Rather, they are among some of the best. Because the storyteller who loves the children and gives the whole of his or her self to them by means...”
“As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant.”
“Whenever he told the story, Rat had a tendency to stop now and then, interrupting the flow, inserting little clarifications or bits of analysis and personal opinion. It was a bad habit, Mitchell Sa...”
“If I drag it up from the bottom of the river, if I dig deep into that muddy floor and pull it up, even if I get most of it wrong, is it mine to tell?”
“And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule - a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not ...”
“Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all.”
“You have to imagine things before you can do them. Stories help us see.”
“If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous.”
“I said, 'Then whered the other story come from? . . .'He said, 'It come in to my mynd.'I said, 'You mean you made it up.'He said, 'Wel no I dint make it up you cant make up nothing in your head no ...”
“Still, truth is how I remember it now. In a way, I am changing the past from my desk here in the future as I write. It always happens like this. This is how we all tell our story.”
“The Queen died. The King died.The Queen died. And the King died of a broken heart.The first line was fact. The second line was a story. It placed the facts in context, added emotion and made us con...”
