Quotes About Narrative

ideologies retool the very religious stories they purport to have supplanted, but eliminate the narrative and psychological richness.

As pessoas que acompanham uma história estão dispostas a suspender a descrença, desde que as limitações que tornam a história possível sejam coerentes e consistentes. Os escritores, por sua vez, concordam em obedecer às suas decisões finais. Quando os escritores enganam, os fãs ficam irritados. Querem atirar o livro para a lareira e atirar um tijolo à televisão.

I have learned that these old stories contain nothing superfluous. Anything accidental—anything that does not serve the plot—has long been forgotten in the telling. As the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov advised, "If there is a rifle hanging on the wall in act one, it must be fired in the next act. Otherwise it has no business being there.

One person begins by telling a story about some interesting occurrence, recent or past, that involved something good, bad or surprising enough to make the listening worthwhile. The other person, now concerned with his or her potentially substandard status as less-interesting individual, immediately thinks of something better, worse, or more surprising to relate.

These are the necessary elements whose interactions define drama and fiction. One of these is chaos. Another is order. The third (as there are three) is the process that mediates between the two, which appears identical to what modern people call consciousness.

recomendaba: «Si hay un rifle apoyado en la pared en el primer acto, tiene que dispararse en el segundo. De lo contrario, no pinta nada ahí».

He is in possession of his life who is in possession of his story." —Carl Jung

Pero si la historia de México que se enseña es aburrida no es por culpa de los acontecimientos, que son variados y muy interesantes, sino porque a los que la confeccionaron no les interesaba tanto presentar el pasado, como justificar el presente.

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

De hát én írom ezt a történetet, s úgy írom, ahogy kedvem tartja.

LISTEN SOCRATES, TO THE STORY; AS EXTRAORDINARY AS IT IS, IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE." Plato Timaeus 355 BC

And as much as history serves as a medium for discovering the past, it also is, we confess, a means to invent it.

Sir Roger was proceeding in the character of him

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

These narrative moves reduce dissonance and help maintain a sense of control and personal unity.

consciousness is a self-narrative

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't my time, or your time, or anyone else's time...

That was quite a story, sir!

Autonoetic consciousness is our best friend and worst enemy. It enables us to write and revise our narrative, our self-story, as we live each moment of each day.

Purdy hardly ever gets to the end of his stories

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Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him, indulging herself and letting her head rest on his shoulder. God, he felt good. Her man. Where her head was meant to lie, right there, on him. "What's the difference?" "A Northern one starts 'once upon a time,' while a Southern one starts 'y'all ain't going to believe this shit.