"Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life."

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Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Gottschall

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“I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.”
“reality is the completion of experience ...”

Source : "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser, p. 221, 1949.
“He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others”
“Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.”
“We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.”

Source : Lisa See (2013). “Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.412, Random House
“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.”
“When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.”
“The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.”

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