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On Ghost Stories : Neil Gaiman

  • Posted on March 23, 2014May 6, 2017
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“We’ve been telling each other tales of otherness, of life beyond the grave for a long time. Stories that prickle the flesh and make the shadows deeper, and most importantly remind us that we live, and that there is something special, something unique and remarkable…

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“All of life is lived through story.” : Bryan Delaney

  • Posted on March 22, 2014
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“All of life is lived through story…Story is how we make meaning of our lives.  Every waking moment we’re bombarded by story,” said playwright Bryan Delaney, speaking to an audience in the Round Room at Dublin’s Mansion House during the March 17th, 2014 event We…

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Stories and Human Connection: Quotes from Brad Pitt and Beeban Kidron

  • Posted on February 3, 2012February 27, 2014
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A couple of quotes from the news recently: “I just had this profound love for storytelling. I think it’s just an amazing thing we get to do. We’re so complex; we’re mysteries to ourselves; we’re difficult to each other. And then here’s this storytelling that…

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In Others’ Words: Treading the Stories’ Paths

  • Posted on October 6, 2010March 4, 2014
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“[The very existence of stories] overlays a faint but insistent pattern on the chaos that is history.  Stories etch grooves deep enough for people to follow in the same way that water follows certain paths down a mountainside.  And every time fresh actors tread the…

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Lives Lived through Storytelling (Thursdays In Others’ Words)

  • Posted on June 18, 2010December 6, 2013
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“Ulysses is about ordinary people, ordinary lives, ordinary days. But those ordinary days make up lives that are lived, and lived through storytelling in the ways we create our own stories around us all the time.” –James Quin of the James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland,…

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In Others’ Words: Building Ourselves Out of Stories

  • Posted on June 6, 2010February 27, 2014
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“We all become what we pretend to be….  It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head.  Always.  All the time.  That story makes you what you are.  We build ourselves out of that story.”  (Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind…

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Why bother? According to Maya Angelou:

  • Posted on November 5, 2009
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -Maya Angelou

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"We Read to Know We Are Not Alone"

  • Posted on November 13, 2007
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This quote, written by William Nicholson for his screenplay Shadowlands, seems to have struck a cord: it returns 15,800 hits on google. Interestingly, this statement is most often attributed to Shadowlands‘ main character C.S. Lewis. I’d venture to say that the same statement could be…

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Why bother? According to John Waters:

  • Posted on January 15, 2007
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…Our best playwrights continue to present us with unsettlingly truthful versions of ourselves. The irony is that these versions must be coated in the taste and color of our delusion. They must tell us what we need to know while allowing us the option of…

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Why Bother Telling Stories?

  • Posted on January 7, 2007
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According to Longfellow: “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

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