[Excerpt from the Nobel Lecture by Doris Lessing (2007)]

But the storyteller will be there, for it
is our imaginations which shape us, keep
us, create us -for good and for ill. It is
our stories that will recreate us, when we
are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the
storyteller, the dream-maker, the
myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that
represents us at our best, and at our most
creative.

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