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"But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger."
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"Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own."
"You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story."
"Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality."
"Storytelling entails weaving a narrative out of the disturbing, strange, inspirational, and unremarkable detritus of life. By picking among the litter of our personal experiences to select evocative anecdotes to weave into a narrative format, we reveal which of life's legendary offerings prove the most sublime to us. Acts of omission are momentous. Our narration of personal sketches divulge what factoids inspire us or do not stir us into action, or contain obdurate truths that prove virtually impossible to crack."
"In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one person - the 'journey of a particular 'hero, in the lingo of the mythologist Joseph Campbell - as a prism for understanding everything else."
"The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together."
"Magician is the best storyteller in the world."
"Let your story breathe and be what it really is."
"Basically all the religions,sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!"
"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid, a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."
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"He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved."
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."
"Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds."
"Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence."
"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"
"Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God'shandwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled."
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