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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

Other quotes by Willa Cather

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. – Willa Cather

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Freedom
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What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. – Willa Cather

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Art
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. – Willa Cather

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Talent
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Storytelling
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Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form. – Jean Luc Godard

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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and thats the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. – Paul Auster

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Storytelling

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

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Storytelling

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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Storytelling

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Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of mens lives. – David O. McKay

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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse. – Zhuangzi

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, its the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

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In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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