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"Stories were heirlooms in these parts."

"Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories."

"Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon"

"Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies."

"The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes."

"All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children’s games. We edge nearer death every tim..."

"We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley"

"The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past."

"Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told."

"Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream."