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"Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh."
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"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"
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"Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully engage in a meaningful conversation with her, an additional part of her mind is frantically sifting through descriptive lines to be used if ever she were to write this exchange down. The trouble with writers is that they are ALWAYS writing!"
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"If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me."
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"Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie."
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"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."
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"The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
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"That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies."
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"This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk."
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"A story has value whether it's true or not."
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"As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper."
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"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."
Health
"For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change."
Change
"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
Opportunity
"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
People
"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
Biography
"Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps."
Virtue
"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."
Family
"Manners are love in a cool climate."
Love
"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
Intelligence
"Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh."
Storytelling
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