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"As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be."
"The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about."
"You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits."
"The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it."
"Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared."
"I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture."
"Every great story seems to begin with a snake."
"Be the hero of your own life story."
"You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders."
"True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness."
"When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly."
"We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true."
"All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love."
"...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)"
"Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author."
"It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride."
"If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place."
"When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer."
"Those who tell the stories rule society."
"Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity."
