stories and storytelling quotes

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So, laying his cheek against the dresser's wooden one,
He died making up stories, the ones
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And the serial continues:
Pain, expiation, delight, more pain,
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I want to go back, out of the bad stories,
But there's always the possibility that the next one . . .
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But after a series of interludes
In furnished rooms (describe wallpaper)
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Therefore our legends always come around to seeming legendary,
A path decorated with our comings and goings. Or so I've been
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as ...
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; l ...
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
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