Quotes About Narrative

Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

The only person who needs to be concerned about the story of you is you.

Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas.

Truth or fiction, you don't have to believe anyone's story. You don't have to form an opinion about what someone says. You don't have to express your own opinion. You don't have to agree

All humans create their story with their own unique point of view. Why try to impose your story on other people when for them your story is not true? When you understand that, you no longer have the need to defend what you believe. It's not important to be right or to make others wrong. Instead, you see everybody as an artist, a storyteller. You know that whatever they believe is just their point of view. It has nothing to do with you.

Humans are born with the power of creation, and we are constantly creating stories with the words that we learned.

There is only one way to change our story, and that is by changing what we believe about ourselves.

You are the only one who can change your story, and you do this by changing your relationship with yourself.

a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle. You should, too.

Nothing matters more than the stories we tell ourselves to explain the world.

Control what people believe, and you control what they do. Who they are. The world is only the aggregate of human perception. Stories are scalpels that allow us to operate on those perceptions.

God is the STRUCTURE of Life, not the Narrative.

Of course, when dragons sit around the campfire at night or tuck their children into bed, they tell the story of the dragon who cried Boy!

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!

De geschiedenis van een mensenziel , zelfs van de allergeringste, is haast belangwekkender en leerrijker dan de geschiedenis van een geheel volk, vooral wanneer zij het resultaat is van een heldere geest, en wanneer zij geschreven is zonder ijdele wens bewondering en sympathie op te wekken.

Most of us have a particular narrative that we tell ourselves (and others) about how we came to be who we are.

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

A person finds it distasteful to hear his life recounted with a different interpretation from his own.

The way contemporary history is told is like a huge concert where they present all of Beethoven's one hundred thirty-eight opuses one after the other, but actually play just the first eight bars of each.

Sim, neste minuto, Frantisek e Kamila são projectados no espaço na nossa narrativa como dois foguetões guiados à distância por um ciúme cego; mas como pode uma cegueira guiar seja o que for?)

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