“A good story is sometimes preferable to an accurate one.”
“I Know My Story and You Know Yours... I Know My Truth and You Know Yours... I’ll Pay For My Sins and You Will Pay For Yours...”
“The story might not be completely true, but maybe there’s some truth in it.”
“You have faith in this story. You long for the day you become part of it.”
“The story of who you were will be told by the things that you accomplished. However, the greater story will be told by what you refused to accomplish.”
“Story is the most adequate way we have of accounting for our lives, noticing the obscure details that turn out to be pivotal, appreciating the subtle accents of color and form and scent that give texture to our actions and feelings, giving coherence to our meetings and relationships in work and family, finding our precise place in the neighborhood and in history.”
“Stop and ask yourself why you would ever go back where you worked so hard to get away from. Is something missing within yourself still, loneliness, or just plain curiosity? When you look back at any toxic relationship and wonder what if , you have not fully healed yet. If you were healed , you wouldn t think twice, not even once, about going back to that chapter in your story.”
“Everybody has a story, what matters is what you do about it!”
“Is this what you want to have written on your gravestone? - I watched all the top-trending YouTube videos. Well done. Gold Star. Sad.”
“When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure, the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn’t be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving belief of the reader in the well-told tale.”
“Do you see now why I recognized you? You’re my favorite story. I feel like I’ve known you for a long time.”
“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”
“Because who would believe the fantastic and terrible story of all of our survival those who were never meant to survive?”
“It was never said of history, for instance, that it shouldn’t be talked about; on the contrary, in terms of history silence was forgetting, and it was the thing people feared most of all when it was their own history that was at risk of being forgotten. And history, really, was invisible, though its monuments still stood. The making of the monuments was half of it, but the rest was interpretation. Yet there was something worse than forgetting, which was misrepresentation, bias, the selective presentation of events. The truth had to be represented: it couldn’t just be left to represent itself, as for instance she had left it to the police after the incident, and found herself more or less sidelined.”
“You Have Every Rights To Write Your STORY About ME But I Have Every Rights To Write My HISTORY About YOU”
“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. - Nabi”
“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.”