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Story is more akin to the lines on your palm. No matter what your fortuneteller claims, the lines are not maps of your future. They are side effects of the flexion of the hand.

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Story is more akin to the lines on your palm. No matter what your fortuneteller claims, the lines are not maps of your future. They are side effects of the flexion of the hand.

Jonathan Gottschall
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Story = Character + Predicament + Attempted Extrication

Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
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Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.

Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
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Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems.

Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
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So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose for which there is no alternative...art, if you like, is really a lack of alternatives."-Jonathan Meese

Prestel Publishing, Jonathan Meese: Fraulein Atlantis
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I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me.

Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography
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How simple it is to acknowledge that all the worry in the world could not control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography
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You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.

Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography
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Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…

Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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