Stories - Quotes
The world is full of stories, and from time to time they permit themselves to be told.
What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are those in which the ending is a surprise.
There`s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother`s story, because hers is where yours begin.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
We all have a thirst for wonder. It`s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I`m saying is, you don`t have to make stories up, you don`t have to exaggerate. There`s wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature`s a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.
There’s nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.
The stories we hear in childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.
A person`s never too old for stories [...]. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.
There are only about five really good stories, and writers just tell them over and over, with different characters.
If we don`t tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won`t believe it.
People don`t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes, lines drawn by traces left by the (re)mingling together of things in the world, and oriented toward predicting events in the future, toward the direction of increasing entropy, in a rather particular corner of this immense, chaotic universe.