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1 " Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. "
― Walter Benjamin , Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
2 " Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all made out of shadows like the shapes on a motion-picture screen. A lot of people think that the function of the projector is to throw light on the screen, just as the function of the story-teller is to stop fooling around and simply tell what happened, but the dark places must be there too, because without the dark places there would be no image and the figure on the screen would not exist. "
― MacDonald Harris , Mortal Leap
3 " The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker. "
― Lafcadio Hearn
4 " It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli. "
