Quotes About Narrative

But I have forgotten to tell you how I came into the world, and am telling you my father's story instead of my own. You seem to like hearing about it though, and you can't understand one without the other.

It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which hung on Emilie's wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved.

Once a story is told, it cannot be called back. Once told, it is loose in the world.

Most of us think that history is the past. It's not. History is the stories we tell about the past. That's all it is.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

There are no truths. Only stories.

The truth about stories is that that's all we are.

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous."

There are no truths, Coyote," I says. "Only stories.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

Every story needs to be told in just the right way.

Readers tend to tolerate such "accidents"... when they get the characters into trouble but they're less accepting when the author uses them to rescue people. The "deus ex machina"...in one stroke it renders meaningless all the efforts of the cast.

In a letter of Lafayette to Washington ("Paris, 12 Jan., 1790") he writes: "Common Sense is writing for you a brochure where you will see a part of my adventures." It thus appears that the narrative embodied in the reply to Burke ("Rights of Man," Part I.), dedicated to Washington, was begun with Lafayette's collaboration fourteen months before its publication (March 13, 1791).

He liked her stories for the same reason she told them—they should have happened.

science is the salvation narrative of modernity.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

The author of "The Religion of Israel," speaking of Samson, says: "The story of Samson and his deeds originated in a Solar myth, which was afterwards transformed by the narrator into a saga about a mighty hero and deliverer of Israel. The very name 'Samson,' is derived from the Hebrew word, and means 'Sun.' The hero's flowing locks were originally the rays of the sun, and other traces of the old myth have been preserved." [73:5]

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story

We all begin with a story of ourselves that we believe to be true. But perhaps true personal change, even healing, can only happen when we change that narrative, when we begin to tell ourselves and others a different story. Surely

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

And here's what's really good," continued Belinda. "The publishing industry has a hard time processing Black characters unless we're suffering.

I know you twist history to make things easier for you, but I've never made you do anything. Do you ever think about your role in all of this?

The church is thus the genuine (though imperfect and incomplete) presence in human history of a people who in their communion together are being narrated into the life of the living God. A divine institution, it is also a fully human, social reality tangibly present in the local congregation and united universally in its origin and end.

Everything is a story, and we are the authors of our own lives.