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Quote by Eric Hoffer
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause,

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. – Eric Hoffer

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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,
that our fathers told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
but tell it to the coming generations. – Bible

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If you dont know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you dont know the stories you may be lost in life. – Anon.

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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. – Italo Calvino

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This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. – Terry Tempest Williams

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