#story

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#based #believe #constant #country #country music

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#fragments #history #holds #makes #possible

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#country #days #deal #delano #economic

We are set to make very bad history. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#history #make #set #very

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

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History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#because #history #last #lesson #long

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ↗

— Brian Eno

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All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. ↗

— John Boorman

#define #great #human #human behavior #i

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#epic #family #give #his #i

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#character #come #different #even #fictional