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The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spo

The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spoke not just to the ears but to the heart as well. – Jane Yolen

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Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos. – Jane Yolen

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The story—from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace—is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind for the purpose of understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. – John Barth

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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. – Jean De La Bruyere

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I will open my mouth in a parable
I will utter dark sayings of old.
Things that we have heard and known,
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We will not hide them from their children,
but tell it to the coming generations. – Bible

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