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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Art
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. – 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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Storytelling
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Stories give color to black and white information. – Todd Stocker

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

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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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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou

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I dont think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans. – Kirk Hammett

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If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. – Howard Zinn

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The literary man must needs be a thinking one, and every day he lives he becomes wiser—if wiser, then better—if better, then happier. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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