#story

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#history #life #meaning #life

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ↗

— Robert McKee

#story #storytelling #time #life

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm glyn and I addictive to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across lightly texture paper. My eyes squint against the lost of time within the pages of story. Sorry to say that I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers. ↗

— g.k.griswold

#anonymous #book #book-a-holic #character #compulsion

The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times. ↗

— Norris Brock Johnson

#history #japan #temple #life

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else. ↗

— Tsuneichi Miyamoto

#history #japan #life

أسهل الاختيارات هو موقف التبعية وأصعبها موقف الاستقلال. موقف التبعية اختيار مريح مرة واحدة طول العمر وموقف الاستقلال اختيار مرهق كل يوم إلي آخر العمر. ↗

— محمد حسنين هيكل

#life #politics #wisdom #life

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#entitled-in-love #love-story #toxic #life

Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life. The barrier was soft, pliable and, for a moment, thanks to the kindness of a stranger and the power of a good storytelling voice, I made the short journey--and returned. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#characters #classic #reality #storytelling #life

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor. ↗

— Sally Armstrong

#adventure-romance #adventuresome-women #canadian #historical #native-american

A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face. ↗

— Robin Schone

#history #romance #scandalous-lovers #women #life