Quotes About Narrative

how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story.

lo delgada que es la línea que separa la verdad de una mentira convincente. La línea que separa la historia de un relato entretenido.

More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts.

how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story." Chronicler gave his words a minute to sink in. "You know which will win, given time.

So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.

What does our story need? What vital element is it lacking?" "Women, Reshi," Bast said immediately. "There's a real paucity of women.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

stories were told here, but they happened somewhere else.

But you of all people should realize how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story.

So much depends on when you stop a story" .

Todos nos contamos una historia sobre nosotros mismos. Siempre. Continuamente. Esa historia es lo que nos convierte en lo que somos. Nos construimos

Interested in the guy's name?" "Nah. Drop him in front of a door and we could call him Mat," I said.

My mother was real and her son was real. When he died she buried him. Now she is dead. Mother Courage and her children, my mother and her son. They are all stories now.

The power of the historian's truth often has a difficult time competing with the power of the right story, even though (or perhaps precisely because) the latter has been hopelessly adulterated with myth and legend,

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

In the long run, stories are probably no less valuable than money, but in the short run they have their decided limitations.

Öyküler ancak onlar? anlatabilecek olanlar?n ba??ndan geçer demi?ti biri bir gün: Ayn? ?ekilde belki ya?ant?lar da onlar? ya?ayabilecek olanlara sunarlar kendilerini.

Toda vida es inexplicable. Por muchos hechos que se cuenten, por muchos datos que se muestren, lo esencial se resiste a ser contado.