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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

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Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

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You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

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You shall not go down good twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet fro...more

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This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and...more