Quotes About Narrative

Oh, I get it, I said. It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

Ack! Parables. I hate parables.

Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

Was that a true story?" "Of course it was a true story!" exclaimed Skarghaz, stomping back to his chair. "We would not tell you a story that said wrong things about the world, Rider." "No, I mean, did it really happen?

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

That's the beauty of meeting in the middle of the story. We already know each other.

That is the difference between you and me. You had only one story to tell.' She stops and grins once more. 'I have millions.

intentioned myth.

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

in a story there is always a reader, and this reader is a fundamental ingredient not only of the process of storytelling but also of the tale itself. Today

Jangan percaya begitu saja pada apa yang disebut sebagai sejarah

Pentru a supravie?ui, trebuie s? spunem pove?ti.

By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world.

By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

It has been said that narrative worlds are always little worlds, because they do not constitute a maximal and complete state of things. In this sense narrative worlds are parasitical, because, if the alternative properties are not specified, we take for granted the properties that hold good in the real world.

De fabula narratur

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.

Mutlu insan?n hikayesi olmaz

There are always two sides to a story.

And yet, just because a story was a certain way didn't mean it would always be like that: stories took their old shape with them and fused it with the new shape. She didn't understand yet how all the tangles of their lives would sort themselves out in her story, but she supposed it would be like raking: not every bit of earth would be untangled at once.

Neither my father nor grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past.

Neither my father nor grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past. I remember hearing from my grandfather that he had once shipped a boatful of slaves as a cargo of rubber. He couldn't tell me when he had done this. It was just there in his memory, floating around, without date or other association, as an unusual event in an uneventful life.