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   Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

   Walter Benjamin

   “Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”

   Every writer and especially every journalist, established or emerging, should read Walter Benjamin on storytelling and information vs. wisdom:

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