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Source: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

“I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace them if they got too old. And this time you would build in some redundancy, if only just to handle the stress. One question was: Would the engine still work if you were aware of it, or if you were told how it actually functioned? Maybe this was one of the crucial differences between a story and a machine.”

Emotion Story Build Machine Redundancy Engine

Book:All Those Vanished Engines

Source: All Those Vanished Engines

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Only now, in rhythmic waves, was she struck by her stupidity, her blindness, her estheronautiness, and, above all, her longing, the insult of the power of her longing, and she knew very well that is was these shortcomings that had made her so eager to interweave in his story the threads of her secret dreams of candor and of painful, purifying honesty; of a generous togetherness in which everything was possible. For a moment, with all that had been spun and stabbed and defiled within her, her face took on the expression of a frightened, abandoned girl who lunges out to bite, who lives unimaginably close to the skin’s surface, ready to be drawn out like a final plan of retreat.”

Dreams Honesty Longing Story

Book:Her Body Knows

Source: Her Body Knows

“There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are also the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. And those seams that are hid from us are of course in the tale itself and the tale has no abode or place of beind except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end. And . . . in whatever . . . place by whatever . . . name or by no name at all . . . all tales are one. Rightly heard all tales are one.”

World Imagination Story Ecology Tale

Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“If you’re ever stuck for an idea try eating a peanut.”

Love Literature Fun Imagination Mystery Discovery Warm Story Magical Children S Learning

Book:Peanut the Hamster

Source: Peanut the Hamster

“Truly, there is magic in fairy tales. For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...' to allure and spellbind an audience.”

Imagination Magic Storytelling Richelle Goodrich Story Richelle Fairy Tales Fairytale Spellbind

Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Lawrencium is named after Ernest O. Lawrence, who created the cyclotron in 1934. Did you know there is a DC Comics character called Cyclotron who is an atomic scientist? He appeared in the Superman comics.”

Love Literature Fun Imagination Mystery Discovery Warm Story Children S Learning

Book:Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Actinide Knights

Source: Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Actinide Knights

“We live in the world we made up.”

Imagination Creation Story

Book:Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon

Source: Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon

“We need to call Glenn the Glimmer Wizard.”

Love Literature Fun Imagination Mystery Discovery Warm Story Children S Learning

Book:The Glimmers Save Christmas

Source: The Glimmers Save Christmas

“Most of the movies are working like, 'Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut' and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information - I try to involve, to the movie, the time, the space, and a lot of other things - which is a part of our life but not connecting directly to the story-telling. And I'm working on the same way - 'information, cut, information, cut,' but for me the information is not only the story.”

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Author:Béla Tarr

“Without the imagination to stimulate and enliven it, plain facts are dull and inert.”

Facts Imagination Storytelling Story

Book:The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher

Source: The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end.”

Inspirational Imagination Dragons Story End

Book:How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

Source: How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?”

Love Life Inspirational Writing Philosophy Dream Inspiration Motivational Death Poetry Fiction Fantasy Relationship Story Magical Realism

Book:The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“This story has never happened but it is real. Once upon a time, in a surreal paradigm.”

Real Dream Imagination Story Surreal Paradigm Fairytale Once Upon A Time Surrealism Original

Book:Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

“I wish I could run into the world’s arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live quietly without dying. I wish I could be cherished by life itself. To speak and sing volumes without lying to myself.”

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“The strangest thing about demons is that they come to love you. As much as they try to murder the very core of you when you first meet, they become your closest companions. I never asked for this devil on my shoulder. But my eyes are burning and I’m not alone. If you see a red gaze at midheaven, look away. It’s exactly as they say: hell is a hungry place.”

Life Writing Philosophy Humor Death Friendship Imagination Fiction Fantasy Hell Relationship Story Magical Realism

Author:F.K. Preston

“All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.”

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you’re too busy living.”

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“Did I love her? No. I obsessed over her completely. And thank heavens I was obsessed. Obsession, infatuation, is something short-lived. A sweet fever dream that leaves you exhausted from the high. Love is perpetual. Love is an entire world compared to that other form of mania people mistake love for. If love is loving the reality of a person, obsession is idealising the fantasy of another. Did I love her? No. Never. But I was utterly obsessed.”

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“A death in reverse is the rewinding of life. I do not die of old age, in a bed surrounded by strangers my loved ones paid to take care of me. I die in reverse. I die falling back into a younger age. From my forty-five years to twenty-five. To sixteen. When we were in love. To fourteen: when we first met. To five. To one. To the hospital my mother died at from the complications of my existence. A life for a life.”

Love Life Inspirational Writing Philosophy Humor Inspiration Motivational Death Poetry Hope Friendship Imagination Fiction Family Fantasy Relationship Story Magical Realism

Author:F.K. Preston

“I wanted to give you something that would last forever. Something that would surpass the world, that would still be alive and bright even after you passed away. Something beautiful. For your eyes and smile only. But I never found it. All I could give you is words. Words which were as fleeting as the heartbeats that shook my soul whenever you looked my way.”

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“The truth is there isn’t anything to me at all. All I know is that I can’t sleep well, I can’t dream well and I’m quite in love with you. That’s all there is to me. My greatest feature is my admiration for you. I know it’s not healthy. Like my insomnia. Like my dreamless nights. You make living alright. My nightmares come when I think of a night without Valeria. That’s when I realise you’re dead. That’s when I remember you’ve been gone for years. That’s when I remember I’m awake. And I wait for this dream called Life to leave me to my peace once and for all and forever.”

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.”

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.”

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.”

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“There are no humans left. I should not be alone. I can’t help but wonder that. There were so many of us living. But time started growing young four years ago. It isn’t four years anymore. It’s a number I wouldn’t even be able to say. It feels like four years. It’s trapped in my tender memory as four years. It’s been an age. Multiple ages. It’s been lifetimes; every single lifetime that used to exist. I remember my mother screaming. I recall the doctors naming me as nurses wiped away her blood and covered her face with white. The end of the play. It’s been so long. Why am I alone?”

Love Life Inspirational Writing Philosophy Humor Inspiration Motivational Death Poetry Hope Friendship Imagination Fiction Family Fantasy Relationship Story Magical Realism

Author:F.K. Preston

“I recall my life every day. I recall my sins and my acts of purity. I remind myself I was never a religious man. I remind myself that I have been dead for half of forever. I remind myself of nothing. I move along to the next minute. Next day. Next year. The earth doesn’t change so much anymore. It doesn’t change so quickly. With humans, the earth had to keep changing. But you can only replace a dying thing so many times before someone notices. There haven’t been humans for years. Maybe a decade. Maybe more. I find myself loving their absence. The absence of humanity is the absence of violence. I love this peace. But then I remember my bones. My mind and my memories. I remember I’m human. I am the thing I detest. The creature that haunts my steps. It’s my shadow I see watching me. It’s my reflection in the water. I keep remembering. I live in fear. But still, I walk on.”

Love Life Inspirational Writing Philosophy Humor Inspiration Motivational Death Poetry Hope Friendship Imagination Fiction Family Fantasy Relationship Story Magical Realism

Author:F.K. Preston

“Four years ago the clocks started turning back. I open my eyes and see nothing. I feel nothing below or above me. I feel the absence of things. The absence of my flesh, my bones, my body, my mind. All that is left is awareness. I see nothing but the absence of colour. It’s not a black darkness. It’s simply nothing. The interior of a black hole. I recall news of a black hole lingering along the edges of our solar system. All that time ago. Four years ago. When the clocks started turning back. I hear nothing. Until there is a something. A small thing. A voice. I listen. There are more voices. The sounds are human. How long has it been since I’ve heard a human? The sounds scratch along my now present attention. They carve into my hearing. They are horrid, wretched things. Voices screaming. Growing loud and desperate. How many voices? Billions. This is the birth of our species. We are born screaming. It’s all we know to do. We have screamed for eternity. Within this empty space.”

Love Life Inspirational Writing Philosophy Humor Inspiration Motivational Death Poetry Hope Friendship Imagination Fiction Family Fantasy Relationship Story Magical Realism

Author:F.K. Preston

“I begin my life. I live again. I meet a young girl called Valeria. She smiles easily. She laughs tender sounds that pull at my heart. I’m too young to be profound but she makes me feel so safe. So cherished. I am thirty years old. I bump into a woman I knew when she was a girl. Valeria looks annoyed to see me. She lives in the future. Where the world is turning. I live within the past. Where the people are trapped and screaming and alone. I live within the past when Valeria and I were in love. She’s waiting for the cab to come, her foot tapping against the sidewalk. Her eyes glancing at her watch every few minutes. I’m eager to reunite our lives through some kind of friendship. I’m so eager to know her again, as she was when she was a child. But Valeria lives within the future. I live within the past. Have the two ever gotten along? Have they ever even met?”

Love Life Inspirational Writing Philosophy Humor Inspiration Motivational Death Poetry Hope Friendship Imagination Fiction Family Fantasy Relationship Story Magical Realism

Author:F.K. Preston

“But I can’t control my dreams. I can’t even remember them. For all I know I’m having the time of my life when I sleep, but I just can’t remember. So I’m forced to live in a life I have no control over. A life where I’m either numb to everything or terrified of every thought that crosses my mind. If this is all just a dream, then it sure is a disappointing one. But I still have time to try and control my dreams. I have time to try and make my dreams a reality in this waking life as well. The one bloody thing I have is time. I’ve got to remember that. I still have time. And despite everything, there is something reassuring about that.”

Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing

“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truthteller.”

Literature Imagination Fantasy Science Fiction Story

Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“The hand of God is wonderfully evident at those times when He pens stories whose lines we ourselves are far too fearful to pen or whose imaginations are far too limited to envision. And I would unashamedly suggest that the Christmas story is that very story.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Faced with the prospect of a black depression, Highsmith once again retreated into fantasy, dreaming about an affair with the actress Anne Meacham, whose picture she had seen in a magazine publicising her role in the Tennessee Williams' play, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. After the disasters of recent years, she reckoned that the safest option was to escape into romantic imagination. She reviewed her failures over the past five years and concluded that 'the moral is: stay alone. Any idea of any close relationship should be imaginary, like any story I am writing. This way no harm is done to me or to any other person'.”

Source: Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι

“Every song I am listening to It has an imaginary story about you.”

Song Imagination Story You Imaginary

Author:Ahmed Ali Anjum

“If imagination is what enables us to conceive of and enjoy stories other than our own, and if empathy is the act of taking other people’s stories seriously, certainty deadens or destroys both qualities. When we are caught up in our own convictions, other people’s stories—which is to say, other people—cease to matter to us.”

Imagination Empathy Certainty Story

Book:Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“Life is a story, until I awake and saw life as a dream.”

Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“How the story will end, no one knows? We can only envisage.”

Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Suddenly someone stops long enough to listen. And in that simple action, some marginalized person finally realizes that they actually have a story to tell and that it’s worth the telling. Therefore, I make it a point to stop rather frequently.”

People Listening Value Individuality Story Worth Listen Life Story Personhood

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every person has a story, but those who show discipline and start writing go on to become authors.”

Life Writing Growth Individuality Storytelling Author Story Writers

Book:Quantraz

Source: Quantraz

“Don’t judge me. You’re not living my life and you know nothing about my battles. You have not the faintest idea of how I manage to smile in the middle of storms or how I transform my despair into delight. You have not the faintest idea of what I have gone through and why I am who I am today. This is my life and only I know the real story. The strains, the struggles, the sorrows are all mine. They’re not for you to assess or evaluate; I give that authority to none, for My Guiding Light is Within. - Manprit Kaur”

Life Wisdom Challenges Unique Smile Individuality Judgement Story Inner Voice Battles

Author:Manprit Kaur

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

Source: Wealth of Words