You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance betwe

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. – Anthony De Mello

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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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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and thats the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. – Paul Auster

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

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Under the Earth I go,
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