• Time is a great story teller.~ Irish Proverb
• Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.~ Eric Hoffer
• Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.~ Eliot Porter
• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
• A story is told as much by silence as by speech.~ Susan Griffin
• It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.~  Native American Proverb
• The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.~ Ben Okri
• If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.~ Horace Mann
• One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.~ Jean De La Bruyere
• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.~ Walter Benjamin
• What a story these old walls could tell.~  American Proverb
• The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.~ Mrs. Humphrey Ward
• Ducking for apples – change one letter and it’s the story of my life.~ Dorothy Parker
• A good storyteller must be able to lie a little.~ Chinese Proverb
• Every story can be told in different ways.~ Greek Proverb
• If you want to know how the true story goes, wait till the arguments start.~ African Proverb

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