#story

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon? ↗

— Dan Brown

#culture

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#conflicts #device #eliminate #entire #found

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#remembrance #story-of-a-girl #memory

Shh, mi amor. The neighbors will hear and call the police. ↗

— Kate Richards

#short-story #the-edge #erotic-romance

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#draw #grows #inclination #limit #look

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#harder #history #hopeless #i #just

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#st-therese #story-of-a-soul #faith

History develops, art stands still. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#develops #history #stands #still

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. ↗

— Eric Bana

#comes #creative #creative process #i #me

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#often #only #out #people #person