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

Tag: stories fiction gaming virtual-reality

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And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.
And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.

Hélène Cixous

Tag: words stories dreams

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Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Slash Coleman

Tag: life inspirational art friend friendship friends past future happiness love passion writing history identity adventure hate loss stories faith lack-of-love marriage relationships moving-on creativity living risk trust believe hurt chance self-help ideas memoir discovery remember chaos writer jewish love-at-first-sight good-morning lovers couples breaking-up youth-age judaism writers-on-writing broken-heart writing-life truths single broken-hearted writing-process writing-books being lovers-quarrels break-up breakups heart-ache writing-style online-dating love-hurts lovers-love-story broken-hearted-quotes lovers-sadness writers-quotes writers-world heart-break writers-life

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Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Slash Coleman

Tag: life inspirational art friend friendship friends past future happiness love passion writing identity loss stories faith lack-of-love marriage relationships moving-on creativity living risk trust believe hurt chance self-help memoir discovery remember chaos writer love-at-first-sight lovers couples breaking-up writers-on-writing broken-heart writing-life truths single broken-hearted being lovers-quarrels break-up breakups heart-ache online-dating love-hurts adventurer lovers-love-story broken-hearted-quotes lovers-sadness writers-quotes heart-break writers-life

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I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Slash Coleman

Tag: life inspirational art friend friendship friends past future happiness love passion writing identity adventure loss stories faith lack-of-love marriage relationships moving-on creativity living risk trust believe hurt chance self-help memoir discovery remember chaos writer love-at-first-sight lovers couples breaking-up writers-on-writing broken-heart writing-life truths single broken-hearted being lovers-quarrels break-up breakups heart-ache online-dating love-hurts lovers-love-story broken-hearted-quotes lovers-sadness writers-quotes heart-break writers-life

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Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

Slash Coleman

Tag: life inspirational writing identity stories self-help memoir writer writers-on-writing writing-life truths writers-quotes writers-life

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Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human.

Camron Wright

Tag: stories literature being-human

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Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reassuring story: that the dead were not entirely dead but were alive in a different way; a paler way admittedly, and somewhat darker. But still able to send messages, if only such messages could be recognized and deciphered. People need such stories, Pilar said once, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.

Margaret Atwood

Tag: belief stories darkness folklore

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Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

Madeleine L'Engle

Tag: art identity stories story personality chaos cosmos

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Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Laura Miller

Tag: stories fire starvation

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