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title: "5 Story Creates Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/style-is-like-voice-it-grows-organically-from-the-truth-of-one-s-own/)

[Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/)

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> [One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-nouwen/one-of-the-remarkable-qualities-of-the-story-is-that-it-creates-space/)

[Henri Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-nouwen/)

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> [“The story of race has become a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy as the story creates the ideas, which then reinforce the story.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debby-irving/the-story-of-race-has-become-a-self-fulfilling-self-perpetuating/)

[Debby Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debby-irving/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/512/debby-irving-25569_racism_the-story-of-race-has-become-a-self-fulf_537241.jpg)

> [“We “create our own reality” by how we choose to make meaning and interpret situations we encounter. Our story creates our feelings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-obear/we-create-our-own-reality-by-how-we-choose-to-make-meaning-and/)

[Kathy Obear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-obear/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee1/kathy-obear-29278_warning-signs_we-create-our-own-reality-by-how-we-choo_1698157.jpg)

> [“One reason is that a story exerts a power beyond the obvious. The whole is so much greater than the sum of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/one-reason-is-that-a-story-exerts-a-power-beyond-the-obvious-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac4/anonymous-1_quote_one-reason-is-that-a-story-exerts-a-powe_2013209.jpg)

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