Almost Make Sense

Are Better When Shared

Autocorrect

Become More Interesting The Longer You Look

Become More Interesting With Age

Become More Valuable After Use

Become More Valuable When Shared

Become Real Only When Shared

Become Stronger When Shared

Carry Meaning

Carry Memory

Change Hands

Change Meaning Depending On Who Holds Them

Circulate

Collect Around A Person

Collect Around Failure

Create Attachment

Create Belonging

Create Common Ground

Create Context

Create Echoes

Create Identity

Create Memory

Create Momentum Across Generations

Create More Than They Consume

Create More Than They Contain

Create Permanence

Create Their Own Gravity

Depend On Sequence

Don't Add Up

Don't Hold Water

Don't Quite Fit

Echo

Endure

Exist To Be Carried

Exist To Be Interpreted

Expand

Fall Apart At The Seams

Feel Secondhand

Fold Back On Themselves

Get Saved For Later

Have To Be Carried Across

Hold Water

Improve A Conversation

Improve By Being Carried

Improve By Being Passed Along

Improve By Being Slightly Broken

Invite Interpretation

Lose Their Shape

Make Good Descendants

Make The Past Reachable

Make The World Feel Smaller

Need Interpretation

Need Salt

Open Slowly

Outlive Ownership

Outlive Their Creator

Persist Through Change

Put You To Sleep

Quietly Connect Eras

Reflect

Remember

Rescue From Oblivion

Resist Compression

Reward Circulation

Reward Context

Reward Expansion

Ring False

Ring True

Run In The Family

Shake Loose

Sit Wrong

Spend The Past

Spill

Survive Their Container

Transform Whatever They Touch

Travel Well

Turn Responsibility Into Legacy

Turn Space Into Place

Unravel Slowly

Warp

Wash Ashore

story

Cockney Rhyming Slang

lobster

storytelling

is a kind of biopsy of human life. It is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way. Lorrie Moore

is a lost art. Stories no longer have a middle or an end and are usually just a beginning that never stops beginning.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. Steven Spielberg

is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations. Ira Glass

is a place we inhabit such that the question of what is to happen next takes place entirely within the four walls of the story. This is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. John Berger

is a refuge for one suffering in mind. It is to be taken like opium and the writer is a a sort of doctor of the mind.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge... I take them like opium... and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind. Robert Louis Stevenson

is a tool that allows us to think in the subjective mood of the 'what if'.

T'he story of how a particular marriage went wrong is implicitly a story of how a marriage should work. . . ..Stories allow us to think in the subjunctive mode, as sociologist Robin Wagner-Pacifici puts it' (Polletta 2006 13).

is always a development of fundamental fictional shapes which can be studied most clearly in myths and folk tales.

All stories in literature are developments of fundamental fictional shapes which can be studied most clearly in myths and folk tales.

story, n.Definitions

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