Quotes About Narrative

Through sheer repetition of the Trump gloss on the Trump Tower story, it lost much of its ability to appall and outrage.

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Captions and hashtags didn't tell the whole story. They didn't even tell the real story a lot of the time.

Of course, in a hundred years, no one will remember any of us and our story will be lost in obscurity, but for us, for all these years when we were kids and then grown-ups, when you were young parents and then grandparents, this is the only story that ever mattered, and it was such a marvelous one. The best story I ever imagined.

If anyone has made you feel invisible or less-than, write a new narrative on your heart.

Theology is either true everywhere or it isn't true anywhere. This helps untangle us from the American God Narrative and sets God free to be God instead of the My-God-in-a-Pocket I carried for so long.

Gentle, inspired, authentic, stories will outsell' hard sell' any day.

all you have to do is let go of your present story and rewrite a new one that fits who you truly are.

Maybe more of us should have plots. Let's take them out of books and put them back in life where they belong.

Everything has its cycle. I think its appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.

To be at the center of the story is a powerful thing, it gives a palpable agency to your life.

Everyone has a story. It's simply a question of finding it.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

Elizabeth walked through the path they'd cleared and up to the towering book. She kicked the cover with a well-shod foot. It slammed shut. Then she dipped her brush into the bucket, crossed out the word history, dipped the brush again, and wrote HER STORY in its place.

History is fiction.

I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.

But what if you don't like your own story. What then?

You have no idea how the story ends. You're not its author.

She doesn't get to tell my story. I do.

Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?

But knowing everything is too much like knowing nothing; without a story, it's all just information.

But my problem is the same one had by everyone who gathers information. What to do with it? How to sort and shape and use it? How to keep from drowning in it? Not every story needs to be told.

The problem is - we own our lives, sure. But our lives don't belong only to us. And yet, we are here to tell our stories in this way to make sense of our lives. So how do you tell a story when you know that telling it will bring other people sorrow? Is it better, in the end, to just be silent?

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.