Quotes About Narratives

Stories happen around us all the time. Some are marvellous, some poignant, while others are tragic. Some are long and last for centuries, while others endure only for an hour. Who can tell when a story really ends?

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.

To take women's equality from novelty to norm, we need to change narratives at a societal and individual level.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

There are at least four Sumerian narratives that explain the origin of man. They are so different that we must assume a plurality of traditions. One myth relates that the first human beings sprouted from the ground like the plants. According to another version, man was fashioned from clay by certain divine artisans; then the goddess Nammu modeled a heart for him, and En-ki gave him life.

that each affects the other and tho other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

the stories we tell ourselves long enough become our truths.

to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

That was a story, too; they all had stories.

All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part. Borys

Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way.... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

when cultural stories remain hidden and untold, they tend to disappear, at least temporarily, leaving one with a void of information about the self. (p.38)

If more stories are told about marginalized communities, subcultures, and minorities, the less marginalized they will be.

The process of dehuminazing the locals was under way, and it had very little to do with veracity. The Puritan narratives would continue that process and bring the devil into the mix. At least John Smith didn't think Satan was involved.

Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?

For trees, stories never end, they simply fold one into another. Where one begins to close, another begins to open, so that none are ever finished, not really.

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

It's part of the human condition that we create stories about ourselves and about the world around us. Our stories are often filled with limitations, and we proceed to live our lives inside those limitations. Your