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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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People
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Goals
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you. – Alice Walker

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Storytelling

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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Storytelling

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

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Storytelling

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