Quotes About Narratives

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

Presenting honest stories of working people as told by rich Hollywood stars"

Stories were ruthless creatures and sometimes fattened themselves on bloody happenings.

I've got a head full of stories you still need to hear, starting with my ribs, ending with my whole life.

Taleb argued that the limitations of the human brain resulted in our species' tendency to squeeze unrelated facts and events into cause-and-effect equations and then convert them into easily understandable narratives.

las historias, llevadas a término, son exploraciones de los limites de la legitimidad.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

We recognize and truly believe that women's stories have the power to transform the world.

Desde aquella noche en la que el hombre que yo más veneraba me abrió su destino como se abre una dura concha, desde aquella noche de hace cuarenta años, me parece infantil e insignificante todo lo que nuestros narradores y poetas cuentan en los libros como extraordinario y todo lo que en los teatros se disfraza de tragedia.

I came from a long line of dreamers, of storytellers, and the most dangerous stories we told were about ourselves.

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

This was the writer's true doppelgänger, I thought; not some invisible imp of the perverse who watched you from the shadows, periodically appearing, dressed in your clothes and carrying your house keys, to set fire to your life; but rather the typical protagonist of your work -- Roderick Usher, Eric Waldensee, Francis Macomber, Dick Diver -- whose narratives at first reflected but in time came to determine your life's very course.

Hyperbolic myths of origin have from the earliest times served to lend a paradoxical plausibility to the biographies of heroes.

But then again, in addition to paper and cardboard...a little illuminated box, that contains thousands and thousands of stories? People aren't fascinated by that? Really?

Eisman was quick to see narratives, he explained the world in stories, and this was one of the stories he used to explain himself. The

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are within and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

Carhart-Harris argues in the entropy paper that even a temporary rewiring of the brain is potentially valuable, especially for people suffering from disorders characterized by mental rigidity. A high-dose psychedelic experience has the power to "shake the snow globe," he says, disrupting unhealthy patterns of thought and creating a space of flexibility—entropy—in which more salubrious patterns and narratives have an opportunity to coalesce as the snow slowly resettles.