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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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Mad Silence Stories
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Adversity Father Tranquil
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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Definitions Destination Require Stop
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
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Beautiful Gun Reality
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
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Heart Mad People
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Men Sometimes
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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Power Should Vision
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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Law Police World
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Dream Inspirational Real
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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Art Humanity Three

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