Who said “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as…”?

“Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.”

“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

“In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.”

“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''”

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”

“Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.”

“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.”

“That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.”

“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”

“That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.”