And now you'll be telling stories
of my coming back
and they won't be false, and they won't be true
but they'll be real
Tags: reality stories true false return
For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are the selfsame tale and contain as well all within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
Cormac McCarthyTags: life world stories lessons
...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: vegetarianism family food stories religion veganism culture mythology
What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
Cornelia FunkeTags: stories
To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.
Marita GoldenTags: parents stories memory mother remember father dedications
He knew all the stories. His grandfather had given them to him when he sat between the old man’s knees as a child. It was a comfort, though, to hear them again. To call them to mind. All these stories that made him more than just a vintner and more than just a man who carried a spear whom other men were willing to follow. More than just a man who lay dying. The stories made him one of the People, who would never die.
Stant LitoreTags: stories heritage cultural-memory
There's more to stories than it seems at first looking," she said. "Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.
Augusta ScattergoodTags: stories two-sides-to-the-story
There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.
Kelly BarnhillTags: words stories infinite complete complex worlds incomplete iron-hearted-violet kelly-barnhill
Have I heard all the stories I need to hear?" she asked, stupidly. But he answered as if it were a good question.
"No, you haven't. But you don't have time to hear any more from me. So listen for stories wherever you go. It won't always be someone telling them; sometimes they come in other ways. And Summer, when you tell yourself stories, make them true. And make them surprising. That's how you will know they might be true.
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
Margaret AtwoodTags: writing stories literature
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