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Telling Stories

«Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother»
«Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning»
«Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.»
«It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story»
«My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.»
«Be amusing, never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.»
«His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.»
«Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish»
«I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.»
«And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings.»