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Good stories are explorations of the human condition; thrilling voyages into foreign minds.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
We organise much of our lives around reassuring ourselves about the accuracy of the hallucinated model world inside our skulls.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Stories are everywhere. Stories are us. It’s story that makes us human.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Human environments are rich with clues about those who occupy them.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
"Reality” may just be a boundary we can’t see past.
Sebastian Junger • In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
The mythologist Joseph Campbell said that ‘the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections.’
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
how we are multiple and confabulatory, skating on the thin ice of sanity, all of us a battleground for the invisible forces of our own subconscious minds.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
the disorder in the upper world cannot be amended without some crucial activity taking place at a lower level,’