Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
Jasper FfordeTags: books stories human-nature fiction
The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.
J. Aleksandr WoottonTags: stories storytelling study folklore fairytales tales human-endeavor
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.
Graham SwiftTags: stories
We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.
Candace FlemingTags: stories memory immortality
Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.
Tony ReinkeTags: children stories parenting attention preaching
The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.
Shandy L. KurthTags: books writing stories author voices
I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
David ByrneTags: life music stories pleasure meaning sea ocean enjoyment
A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.
Deanna VasquezTags: life reading books death stories read living
That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.
Stefanos LivosTags: imagination books reality stories literature teach
Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scratching of a branch against the window at night, the steady insistence of it is comforting. She has stories without beginnings, stories that trail off, stories that crisscross and contradict and dead end.
Toy is the star of her stories. Events orbit her like a constellation.
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