storytelling is a ritual surrounding a metaphor for life. - Robert McKee

For while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also the case that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

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In life, idea and emotion come separately. Mind and passions revolve in different spheres of our humanity, rarely coordinated, usually at odds. In fact, in life, moments that blaze with a fusion of idea and emotion are so rare, when they happen you think you're having a religious experience. But whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion.