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Narrative Quotes

"We're all stories, in the end."

"Be sure not to discuss your hero's weaknesses anymore than you discuss God’s."

"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater"

"The role of the storyteller is to regenerate the past so that it might deliver its message for the present moment"

"The story is everything, which means that it's always something of an adventure to tell it"

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter"

"It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction."

"A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice all at once"

"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives—the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless"

"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth"

"Fiction is a lie that tells us true things."

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."

"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit"

"The storyteller's task is to name what is lost"

"There is only one type of story in the world-your story."

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