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Our friend Joanne Ramos spotted this quote and we love the reminder. 

Here’s to sharing our recollections, to remembering, to telling our stories!

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Each story is an emblem of existence, the symbolic representation of someone’s interpretation of reality, of the interaction between inner and outer world

Alida Gersie and Nancy King

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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it…

Shakespeare, Loves Labours Lost

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we dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticize, construct, gossip, learn, hate, and love by narrative.

Barbara Hardy 1968

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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Philip Pullman

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All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them.

Isak Dinesen

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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.  Steven Spielberg

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to listen is not only to perceive a language, it is also to contruct it.

Roland Barthes

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He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.  Marie de France 

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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Ben Okri

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Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.. Patti Davis

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The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.  Jimi Hendrix 

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If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.  Peter Handke 

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.  George Orwell 

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These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance. Edwidge Danticat

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.  Simone Weil

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I put my story down here, so that someone else may take it up another day.

Peter Brook quoting an African storyteller.