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Time, the earth, and death are living things, as stories are &mdas

Time, the earth, and death are living things, as stories are — so long as other living things exist to feed them, and for them to nourish in their turn. – Robert Bringhurst, 1995, Introduction to The Dreamer Awakes by Alice Kane

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

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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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