Stories

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

~ Phillip Pullman

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I think that imagination is a combination of head and heart.  There has to be a touch of reality in contrast to the creative.  It makes it more bold.  Impossible stories don't stay with us as much as ones with a touch of possibility.  Right?  I mean, I think that's right.

I wonder what is scarier - the stories we tell ourselves or the stories we don't.

I think I know.

The stories we tell ourselves about UFOs when it is dark out and we are driving alone in the countryside.  Those are the scarier stories.  

Fortunately, almost always, our minds get erased of those stories.