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“A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.”

Stories Seems Moving Sun Wind Passing Passings Smoke Noses Bees Snakes Perfume

Book:The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of

Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of

“I used to hide it but after a lot of encouragement from my friends at university, I've gained the confidence to come out with it. I am the sun from Teletubbies. There has been quite a few people pretending to be 'the sun' but only I could tell you the real story. Everyone says they can see the likeness between my face now and me as a baby. I still have a baby face. I haven't changed much either. I am still giggly.”

People Has Beens Stills Real Stories Faces Used Sun Havens Changed Baby My Friends Encouragement University Pretending Real Story I Haven't Changed

Author:Jess Smith

“Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.”

Littles Long Stories Sun Mines Flower Glory Violet

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.”

Stories Literature Principles Sun Habit Conscious Concepts Tradition Structure Mythology Traditional Mature Metaphoric Sun God

Author:Northrop Frye

“Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.”

“The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.”

“There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.”

People Thinking Stories Courses Brain Wonder Moral Sun Danger Wall Goes On Civilization Normal Sick Dresses Western Untrue Western Civilization Accusing Off The Wall Accusing Me

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.”

Thinking Persons Stories Body Used Night Actors Acting Healing Roles Sun Gone Fire Storytelling Priests Terrified Tribes Storyteller Healer Priesthood Archetype Weaving

Author:Ben Kingsley

“If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.”

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

“Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.”

Men Art Stories Feelings Earth Sun Eternal Built Ancient Patterns Admire Charm Charming Animated

Author:Marie Bashkirtseff