Quotes About Story

Real life is a story too, only much more complicated...the world is a library and you'll never get to read the same book twice.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of which he can remember, but the most he is having trouble remembering. History is transforming the past to a story that the person tells himself. Sometimes, the story stems from the past, but even the most sincere patient's history is more like a myth. (Translated from the Hebrew edition).

Hegel said that history was the story of freedom becoming conscious of itself.

our mission is nothing less (or more) than participating with God in this grand story until he brings it to its guaranteed climax.

To dwell in love with saints above— Oh that will be glory! But to dwell below with saints we know— Ah! That's a different story!

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

Oh, I get it, I said. It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.

This is fucking magic, she thought. This isn't some story out of one of Tommy's books. This isn't something you can experiment with in the bathroom. This is not natural, and whatever I am, it isn't natural. A vampire is magic, not science.

Ah, já entendi - disse eu. - É uma parábola. Que giro. Vamos comer.

it was cruel of her to spend her only time in contact with the outside world telling lies to a little boy, but then, the first story that Mother Basil had told me was about a talking snake who gave tainted fruit to naked people, and the bishop had made her an abbess.

Was that a true story?" "Of course it was a true story!" exclaimed Skarghaz, stomping back to his chair. "We would not tell you a story that said wrong things about the world, Rider." "No, I mean, did it really happen?

Cuento!- rugió Brom con un destello de enfado en la mirada-. Si es un cuento, entonces los rumores sobre mi muerte son ciertos y... ¡estás hablando con un fantasma! Respeta el pasado porque nunca se sabe cómo puede afectarte.

That is the difference between you and me. You had only one story to tell.' She stops and grins once more. 'I have millions.

As the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 demonstrates, mass murder and routine had become one. Normality itself had become exceedingly abnormal.

Listening to the man's story, Jim felt he'd been granted a privilege. This was intimate contact with life, the very thing he had missed during all those years of reading philosophy.

intentioned myth.

You might think Cult Girls would have a rather limited readership (ex-Jehovah's Witnesses) but I, who never bothered to learn anything about those strange people who rang my doorbell with good news loved it. Jehovah's Witnesses aside, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel pertains to any cult. Nicely and clearly written, it's a good harrowing story.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).

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