Quotes of: True-story Keyword

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just ...

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Even after three hundred maps have been handed out, Ama and I still melt the moment people switch from being suspicious that we want to sell them something--"Hey? What do you want? Money? Directions?--to realising that we just want to know their stor...

Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers

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...

Strangers in the Land

No, I have never had a problem finding books to read. But I have had a problem finding people who understand what it's like to really LOVE reading. Maybe even need it. People who associate periods of their life with the kinds of things they were read...

Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt

Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was upon him. Arin had been born in the year of the god of death, and ...

The Winner's Kiss

The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or ...

A Wizard of Earthsea

Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out of the answer. Romance on the other hand, is fundamentally about relationships. The hypothetical romance transp...

Dave Robinson

Continuing to tell stories of shortage only continues to contradict your desire for abundance, and you cannot have it both ways: You cannot focus upon unwanted and recieve wanted. You cannot focus upon stories about money that make you feel uncomfort...

Abraham Hicks

Here’s the conundrum: We want to tell our stories! But if condensation is the language of wishes—especially the most verboten and destructive ones—the more you spell the story out, the less aesthetically charged it becomes. The question is whet...

Love

I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

In the City of Shy Hunters

Anyone who has physically incarnated on the Earth is energetically connected to the people they love, and to the Earth, indefinitely...

Conduit: A Love Story Before During and After Life

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments." [ ]

Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

Chronicles of Urban Nomads

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling, stories control their bearers, and eventually, their hearers as well.

The Cashmere Scarf

[Mary] says her memories Will help those of us Newly come to our Lord’s mercy, To live in His light.

Daystar Rising: A Story of the First Christmas

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

I was raised to face any challenge.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II