"A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child"

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Source : Joseph Bruchac (1996). “Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred”, Fulcrum Pub

Joseph Bruchac

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“I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.”
“It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.”
“Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.”
“Music is the silence between the notes.”
“Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.”
“There is not, in my view, a single European demos.”
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.”

Source : "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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