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Do you enjoy stories, young lady?" "What kind of stories?" "The best kind, of course," Slowswift said, tapping his book. "The kind about monsters and myths. Longtales, some call them - stories told by skaa around the fires, whispering of mistwraiths, sprites, and brollins and such.
The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according to his inner self. The words go to the ear, but the true message travels straight to the spirit.
Story is a fragile and ephemeral thing on its own, a thing that is easily effaced or disappeared or destroyed, and it is worth preserving.
A tale spinner's goal is entertainment.
Stories matter. They shape our lives, expectations, and dreams. They are the warp and weave of our human existence, binding us into a fabric far stronger than any individual element
Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.
There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.
Any story is an ocean whose tide begins in a place I can't know, and my life is but a moment in that flood, my part in it only a mote in the flow.
A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there's a nasty surprise ready to punish you for every false step.
A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)
Stories shape the world.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
Everything starts with a story.
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
Tale as old as time,
A beautiful tale is pleasantly interesting, but a tale re-told is not only sweeter but lacks the bitter truth.
... but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.
We are creatures of story.
Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.
It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception.
"Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?
Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told.
A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.
The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them.
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
But this wasn't a fairytale.
Viggo's and my story was everything but.
Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.
Story is a way to find grace in the chaos.
Stories are medicine.
A story is not a thing. A story is an act. It only exists in the brief moment of its telling. The question you must ask is what a story has the power to do. The truth of something you do is very different from the truth of something you know.
A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.
It is the tale, not he who tells it.Tale-- Stephen King
In learning about the myths and legends of old, we learn something of ourselves. Stories, Maisie, are never just stories. They contain fundamental truths about the human condition.
[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.
A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
Stories are just things we fabricate, nothing more. We search for them in a world beside our own, then leave them here to be found, garments shed by ghosts.
Stories are one of the most powerful ways in which we communicate ideas among ourselves. They are the stuff that brings us together, the things we celebrate, the things we share with one another.
A story? No. No stories, never again.
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.
Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change.
Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.
I love storytelling.
Then a person has only one tale?"
No, some have two or three separate ones or more," Fleet said. "Some people have many tales. Sometimes they are linked into one big tale, sometimes they are utterly distinct. Most people do not have one at all.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
Nothing good about this but it's title. A priggish little yarn. And Hidden Riches is not a story
it's a machine. It creaks. It never made me forget for one instant that it was a story. Hence it isn't a story.
A story knows its way.
Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim.
Stories are where you go to look for the truth of your own life.
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
A story is a wondrous invention.
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory,
where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.
Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.
And what is a story but the wanting for something difficult and the willingness to work for it?
Stories are equipment for living.
A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.
Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.
The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.
Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all.
Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.
As far as I'm concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
Kindred's tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely - and demonically - inspired.
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art,
Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.
Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.
When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike ... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.
a lifetime of stories
The truth about stories is that that's all we are.
Stories are the shortcut to the heart.
Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.
Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.
Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.
When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.
Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while you are hearing the tale.
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
Stories make it possible for us to be human.
One never knows when one might walk into a tale. - Ardaz
A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.
There is only one type of story in the world-your story.
A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered.
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When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so often contain.
I tried to protect Shay from that darkness. But there was no way to shield her from the truth: Life is not a fairy tale.
Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.
The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. The stories that give us our names, our identities, the places we belong, the people we hate.
Stories are rarely only stories
The truth about stories is, that's all we are.
Remember that stories are more than just words, more than fairy tales. They are magic.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
I need to tell you a story, a tale of fate and emergence.