“I believe in all human societies there is a desire to love and be
loved, to experience the full fierceness of human emotion, and to make a
measure of the sacred part of one's life. Wherever I've
traveled--Kenya, Chile, Australia, Japan--I've found the most dependable
way to preserve these possibilities is to be reminded of them in
stories. Stories do not give instruction, they do not explain how to
love a companion or how to find God. They offer, instead, patterns of
sound and association, of event and image. Suspended as listeners and
readers in these patterns,we might reimagine our lives. It is through
story that we embrace the great breadth of memory, that we can
distinguish what is true, and that we may glimpse, at least
occasionally, how to live without despair in the midst of the horror
that dogs and unhinges us.”
―
Barry Lopez
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