Quotes About Narrative

You don't think history gets rewritten, sometimes?

Sometimes, you can't help seeing yourself as the hero of your own story.

The delirious smells had raised even the soldier from the stupor into which the scholar complex narrative had thrown him.

The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that's not the point.

Because once upon a time, we grew up on stories and the voices in which they were told. We need words to hold us and the world to behold us for us to truly know our own souls.

Only a woman could make so much out of so little. Give them a single fact and they'd fashion it into a story before taking a single breath.

Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.

And she did. But that, dear reader, is another story . . .

that was the beauty of writing one's own tale. She could do whatever she wanted. She'd always wanted to be an evil overlord. Or a nice one. She had no real preference. Just so long as she was in charge.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

And as someone whose path to the White House ran through Fox News, Trump saw television and politics as inseparable. Appearance, narrative, airtime, and headlines were more important to him than policy and governance. So it is no wonder that when he looked to staff his campaign and his administration, he was heavily influenced by Fox News. After Roger Ailes, the CEO of Fox News, was forced out in 2016 after years of sexual harassment, accusations he became an adviser to the Trump campaign.

Still, who, I wondered, owns the disappearing story that, in, part, they tell? The story of the teacher and the children lives now in so few places: on that weather-beaten wall, in scrapbooks filled with photographs. History isn't a sculptured cup; it's more like a sieve through which so many stories pass and disappear.

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

Tout ce qu'on introduit dans un roman devient signe.

ViaÈ›a noastr? e o carte care se scrie singur?. Noi suntem niÈ™te personaje de roman care nu înÈ›eleg întotdeauna prea bine ce vrea autorul.

In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy of power and desire, of seduction by the Other. This

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

Ahora es más difícil hablar de esto, está mezclado con otras historias que uno agrega a base de olvidos menores, de falsedades mínimas que tejen y tejen por detrás de los recuerdos...

En alguna parte Morelli procuraba justificar sus incoherencias narrativas, sosteniendo que la vida de los otros, tal como nos llega en la llamada realidad, no es cine sino fotografía, es decir que no podemos aprehender la acción sino tan sólo sus fragmentos eleáticamente recortados.

Porque en realidad él no le podía contar nada a Traveler. Si empezaba a tirar del ovillo iba a salir una hebra de lana, metros de lana, lanada, lanagnórisis, lanatúrner, lannapurna, lanatomía, lanata, lanatalidad, lanacionalidad, lanaturalidad, la lana hasta lanáusea pero nunca el ovillo.

Un racconto è significativo quando spezza i propri confini con quell'esplosione di energia spirituale che illumina bruscamente qualcosa che va molto oltre il piccolo e talvolta miserabile aneddoto che narra.