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Story Quotes
"All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling."
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"It was one of the few stories we told the same way."
17
"This is one of those stories where the feeling of the moment stands in for visual details."
17
"There was still something unfinished around her eyes; she wasn't done yet. She was a story, not an epilogue. And if she chose to narrate her own life one word at a time as she descended the stairs to meet her newest arrival, that wasn't hurting anyone. Narration was a hard habit to break, after all. Sometimes it was all a body had."
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"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."
12
"Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds."
12
"The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in."
11
"But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people."
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"In Miamas, fairy tales are still produced around the clock, lovingly handmade one by one, and only the very, very finest of them are exported. Most are only told once and then they fall flat on the ground, but the best and most beautiful of them rise from the lips of their tellers after the last words have been spoken, and then slowly hover off over the heads of the listeners, like small, shimmering paper lanterns."
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