"People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning."

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Source : Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.20, Canongate Books

Scarlett Thomas

#Giving Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.”
“I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.”
“You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.”
“My husband keeps me really honest.”
“I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.”
“There is compensation in all things.”

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The Romance of the Harem”, p.114, Applewood Books
“Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant ra~onale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.”
“Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?”

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