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Stories Quotes (page 97)

There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the true account and, embellished with iridescent lies, beguile them. Pindar
Wally Lamb quote: "But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our..."
But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears? Wally Lamb
Richard Wright quote: "I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it..."
I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]. Richard Wright
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. Virginia Woolf
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh. Adlai E. Stevenson
Leo Tolstoy quote: "All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a..."
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Leo Tolstoy
To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. Barack Obama
That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.'It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing. Roberto Bolano
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end. Philip Pullman
As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper. Salman Rushdie
We have, as human beings, a story telling problem, we're a bit to quick to come up with explanation for things we really don't have an explanation for. Malcolm Gladwell
Will Durant quote: "So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not..."
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. Will Durant
And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet. Russell Brand
The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructiv? compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic. Guy Debord
But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pictures of the eternal picture at any given time? And that maybe if we could collect those pieces and compare them, a story about God would begin to emerge that resembles and includes everyone? Elizabeth Gilbert

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