Quote by Alice Walker
Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become

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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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. – Alice Walker

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mom
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Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. – Alice Walker

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best
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didnt want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. – Alice Walker

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

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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

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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

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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. – Camille Paglia

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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. – Alfred Hitchcock

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Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything thats down can come up. – George Burns

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Ive always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. – Peter Jennings

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