Quotes About Narrative

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Questa è un'altra storia e andrà raccontata un'altra volta

that Fantastica is the land of stories? A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.

He said there are three kinds of history. The first is what really happened, and that is lost forever. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened, and that is 90 percent of the history in books.

We mentioned it later to some people who'd been at the Pacification briefing, someone from the Times and someone from the AP, and they both agreed that the kid from the Big Red One had said more about the Hearts-and-Minds programme than they'd heard in over an hour of statistics, but their bureaus couldn't use his story, they wanted ambassador Komer's. And they got it and you got it.

Some stories must be told—not because they will delight and instruct but because they happened.

I set out to write this book only because I thought it would be better to tell the story than to go on living the story.

No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.

There will no longer be truth and falsehood. There will just be stories, with two sides to them.

Everyone has a story they tell themselves about themselves. Even if they don't explicitly acknowledge it, their minds are at work retelling or editing or updating a narrative that explains or excuses why they have spent their time on earth as they have.

The exercise was meant to illustrate the powerful instinct people have for finding causes for any effect, and also for creating narratives. "The

Telling a story that is consistent with everything that happened before

Humans and stories need each other. We tell them, but they tell us too – reaching with soft hands and wide arms to pull us into their embrace. They do this especially when we have become mired in lives of which we can make no sense. We all need a path, and stories can sometimes usher us back to it.

You can't have made-up things in made-up stories. But in real life, you can.

I said this was his story. I didn't say I believed it. I don't. You shouldn't either. That would be best.

It's not true that everyone wants to confess a crime, but most people do want to tell something of their story, to stop hiding for just a while.

Humans and stories need each other.

In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves.

Memory is the foundation of identity. Through our sense of identity, we act. We determine our moral judgements. We rewrite our own memories, of course, all the time. We create fresh narratives to use in our survival. We agree on fresh histories enabling us to take action. It is part of what makes us such flawed creatures. Creatures of such narrative fiction creating cause and effect.

I think the notion of worldbuilding is a failure of literary sophistication.

I am a story as well as a happening, and I want my story to be known

You must remember," she said, putting a bony hand on mine, "that true stories do not always end as we would wish them to. Would you like to hear the truth of what happened, or shall I make something up for you just to keep you happy?

He believed that we live on only as long as our story is told. I believe that too.