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“The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.”
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“The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the confidence in tomorrow’s love is also part of today’s. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die — I almost believe, rationalist though I am — that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed.”
― It's Been a Good Life
― It's Been a Good Life
“You can fuck around with the rules as much as you want to – after you know what the rules are. You can be Picasso after you know how to paint.”
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“Without our stories we are incomplete.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”
― The Owl Service
― The Owl Service
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