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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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I will open my mouth in a parable
I will utter dark sayings of old.
Things that we have heard and known,
that our fathers told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
but tell it to the coming generations. – Bible

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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. – John Barth

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

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