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Megan Green
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“The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.”
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
“Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.”
― Mighty Little Man: My Story, His Story, Our Story
― Mighty Little Man: My Story, His Story, Our Story
“fiction writers are fully ten times more likely to be bipolar than the general population, and poets are an amazing forty times more likely to struggle with the disorder. Based on statistics like these, psychologist Daniel Nettle writes, “It is hard to avoid the conclusion that most of the canon of Western culture was produced by people with a touch of madness.” Essayist Brooke Allen does Nettle one better: “The Western literary tradition, it seems, has been dominated by a sorry collection of alcoholics, compulsive gamblers, manic-depressives, sexual predators, and various unfortunate combinations of two, three, or even all of the above.”
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
“Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.”
― A Treasury of Pet Humor
― A Treasury of Pet Humor
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