Quotes About Narrative

History is written by the victor.

Or maybe the labyrinth had been built just for this purpose—to have them all play their part in a story written once upon a time and long ago.

It's always just a few who know where to look and how to listen, that is true. But for the best stories, a few are just enough.

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.

Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Writers of history often seek the dramatic over the truth. It is a failing of the profession.

You can indeed die at the margins of a story, but you are as dead as if it were your own tale ending and never told.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

No se exagera mucho si se dice que, al final de la línea, la historia de México no la han escrito los triunfadores.

I Drink. I Burn. I Dream. And Sometimes, I tell Stories !

Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?

Jung says we must look at the intentionality of the characters and where they are heading, for they are the main influence upon the shape of the stories. Each carries his own plot with him, writing his story, both backwards and forwards, as he individuates. Jung gives far more weight to individual character than either to narrative or to plot. If

Noi suntem inventaÈ›i pe m?sur? ce ne tr?im viaÈ›a, deÈ™i evenimentele aleatorii ale zilelor noastre nu par s? urmeze un curs coerent. Firul narativ iese la iveal? abia la momentul reamintirii. Copil?ria are sens doar când privim retrospectiv. Doar atunci când privim retrospectiv, printre crengile arborelui, vedem realitatea ghindei.

Your book of life is your story to tell, and the choices you make write the chapters.

The difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one is... A Northern one starts 'once upon a time,' while a Southern one starts 'y'all ain't going to believe this shit.

Always stick to the story. It's when you started backtracking that gets you in trouble.

Always stick to the story. It's when you start backtracking that gets you in trouble.

Achieving a more conscious participation in a richer story proves a great gift after all.

Without a larger measure of consciousness, we cannot begin to struggle with fate. We rather remain its prisoner. It behooves all of us to look at the prevalent patterns of our lives and ask what "story" they might be serving.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

And, as a mere matter of ficfect, I tell of myself how I popo possess the ripest littlums wifukie around the globelettes globes (...)