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It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.
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It Is Important To Know The Stories

Ali Smith
It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.
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As a historian i understand how histories are written. my enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove i was unimportant. my friends will write histories that glorify me and prove i was more important than i was. and two generations or three from now, some serious sober historian will write a history that sort of implies i was whoever i was.
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Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. those are stories. funny stories. awkward stories. stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. but that's all bad first dates are: short stories. good first dates are more than short stories. they are first chapters. on a good first date, everything is springtime. and when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. even after it's over, there can be springtime.
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The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. we are the only creature in the world that does this; we are the only creature that tells stories, and sometimes those are true stories and sometimes those are made up stories. then there are the larger stories, the grand narratives that we live in, which are things like nation and family and clan and so on. those stories are considered to be treated reverentially. they need to be part of the way in which we conduct the discourse of our lives and to prevent people from doing something very damaging to human nature.
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All they get around here is stories. stories don't make you bleed. stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet. when you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.
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I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... stories exist. they keep us sane, i think. we tell each other stories, we believe stories. i love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. they're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.
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