Quotes About Narrative

My story for the day was a limp sort of evil.

It was one of the few stories we told the same way.

We are all working from the same dog-eared script.

I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage.

I wasn't entirely sure about Meredith's assessment. Some people would love to have the killer be a guy born and raised in Wind Gap. Someone they went fishing with once, someone they were in Cub Scouts with. Makes a better story.

I had a new persona, not of my choosing. I was Average Dumb Woman Married to Average Shitty Man. He had single-handedly de-amazed Amazing Amy.

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot

True history, said Hearst, with a smile that was, for once, almost charming, is the final fiction. I thought even you knew that.

It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.

I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate,...

All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.

We live in the stories we tell ourselves.

Faulkner did the same thing in Absalom, Absalaom, demonstrating that no two people ever experience the same event, and that history is doomed ot only be a version of events.

This is... an attempt to find some of the important fault lines in the narrative of recorded history--the points where people with access to the technology decided that *this* was how recordings should sound, and *this* is what it means to make a record. Ultimately, this is the story of what it means to make a recording of music--a *representation* of music--and declare it to be music itself.

A criminal case is an assemblage of facts and details in an order that presents a story to a jury. Some pieces of the puzzle are magnified and others are diminished. In some cases, pieces are hidden. Or, as in the case of Alan Dawson, tampered with. Meg

Throughout the biblical narrative what sets humans apart from all animals is that humans alone possess a soul and therefore live eternally, reason, have moral capabilities, and can love. Unlike humans, nowhere are animals offered eternal life (John 3:15), commanded to think (Luke 10:27), held morally accountable (Ezek. 33:18–19), or commanded to love (John 15:17).

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

So it begins, this story, like everything else—with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.

La scelta che fai, odio o perdono, può diventare la storia della tua vita.

And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.