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Quote by Willa Cather
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeatin

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. – Willa Cather

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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. – Willa Cather

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Story gives people enough space to think for themselves. – Annette Simmons

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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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Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos. – Jane Yolen

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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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