Quoting Humanisms
We tell ourselves stories in order to live
Joan Didion, title of her collected stories.
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Stories animate human life: that is their work.
Arthur W.Frank Letting Stories Breathe
Narrative makes the earth habitable for human beings” Frank, again: p46
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We have each of us, a life story, an inner narrative – whose continuity, whose sense is our lives…. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative to maintain his identity…
Oliver Sachs opening to The man who mistook his wife for a hat