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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
Alan Garner
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Alan Garner
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: October 17
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