"[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from."
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"If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making."
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"Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it."
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"All love stories are the same."
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"I like small stories."
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"If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative."
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"Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical."
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"Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train."
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"This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market."
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"Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them."
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"There are real people behind the [Bible] stories."
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"I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain."
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"If you knew everyone's story, you would love them. You can't really hate anyone if you know everything that happened to them between their birth and now; why they became the way they became; why they have walls up or down. If you truly know someone, you'd get it."
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"There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan."
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"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love."
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"One story sounds good until another is told"
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"I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it."
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"Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories."
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"People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard."
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"When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?"
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