Quotes About Narrative

It's always the case that history is a tale told by the victors. But the triumph of the scientific worldview has been so complete that we've lost more than the losing side's version of history. We've lost the idea that a view different from ours is even possible. Today we take for granted that originality is a word of praise. New strikes us as nearly synonymous with improved. But for nearly all of human history, a new idea was a dangerous idea.

Every picture tells a story.

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history.

It is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.

I gotta tell you, I am loving this yada yada thing. I can gloss over my whole life story.

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both.

Their words seemed to them as idle tales.

We spend our years as a tale that is told.

Today's story writes tomorrow's history

The lie has seven endings.

Os romances maus contam histórias, os bons romances mostram-nos a nós mesmos.

The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

I know why those librarians read the old stories to you," Rex says. "Because if it's told well enough, for as long as the story lasts, you get to slip the trap.

That's what the gods do," he says, "they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.

Some stories," she says, "can be both false and true at the same time.

Almost overnight, the streets glow with meaning. She reads inscriptions on coins, on cornerstones and tombstones, on lead seals and buttress piers and marble plaques embedded into the defensive walls—each twisting lane of the city a great battered manuscript in its own right.

Anna remembers something Licinius said: that a story is a way of stretching time.

Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

that a story is a way of stretching time.

But this was just a story they told to comfort themselves.

Sabe a maior lição da história? A história é aquilo que os vitoriosos determinam. Eis a lição. Seja qual for o vencedor, ele é quem decide a história.

Sabes cuál es la lección más importante d ela historia? Que solo la escriben los vencedores. Esa es la lección. El que decide el rumbo de la historia es el que gana.

Because if it's told well enough, for as long as the story lasts, you get to slip the trap.