“ I guess I'm a good story teller. What makes me a prolific writer is two factors at work. Celibacy; I don't have a family to distract me. And I'm glib. I reached facility with words. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. ”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer- Copy
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“ I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense… symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. ”
- Richard Avedon- Copy
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“ It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame… ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
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“ If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you… ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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