Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Rocks Quotes, Stories Quotes

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.

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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

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I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?" Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

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