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The story—from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace—is one

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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Those who tell the stories rule the world. – Hopi proverb

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

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Australian Aborigines say that the big stories—the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life—are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. – Robert Moss

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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. – Hannah Arendt

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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. – Aesop

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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. – Muhammad Ali

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