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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The World Split Open

    A related point: The job of the imagination, in making a story from experience, may be not to gussy the story up but to tone it down. The fact is, the world is unbelievably strange and human behavior is frequently so weird that no kind of narrative except farce or satire can handle it. The function of the storyteller's imagination sometimes is simply to make it more plausible.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Voices

    I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? The tale tells how the Lords of Manva hunted & gathered roots & cooked their suppers while they were camped in exile in the foothills of Sul, but it doesn't say what their wives & children were living on in their city left ruined & desolate by the enemy. They were finding food too, somehow, cleaning house & honoring the gods, the way we did in the siege & under the tyranny of the Alds. When the heroes came back from the mountain, they were welcomed with a feast. I'd like to know what the food was and how the women managed it.
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  3. J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories

    This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.
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  4. J.D. Salinger _ نغمه‌ی غمگين

    داستانها هرگز به پایان نمی رسند. راوی ست که معمولا صدایش را در نقطه ی جذاب و هنرمندانه قطع می کند؛ کلا همه اش همین است.
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  5. Graham Greene _ The End of the Affair

    A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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  6. Nicholas Sparks _ The Notebook

    Every great love starts with a great story...
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  7. Sarah Vowell _ The Partly Cloudy Patriot

    The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories."
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  8. John Berger _ Once In Europa

    If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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  9. Geoffrey Chaucer _ The Wife of Bath's Prologue &

    By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.
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  10. Umberto Eco _ Six Walks in the Fictional

    To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative - the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.
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  11. Umberto Eco _ Postscript to the Name of the

    Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known {and have told us again and again}: books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
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  12. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true,only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.
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