The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted. — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
It is not a badge of honour to be recounting to people how much money I have lost. — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“It is better to take much pride in the amount of changes you have imparted in the world, than you take recounting… — Abdulazeez Henry Musa Copy Share Image
“When you are spoken of, it begins with recounting your death, before going back to explain it. Isn’t it peculiar how this… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating… — Peter Brooks Copy Share Image
“I’m thinking I don’t know what I’d possibly write about in a journal,” I told him, even though I knew what he… — John Searles Copy Share Image
“Recounting an event distorts it, recounting facts distorts and twists and almost negates them, everything that one recounts, however true, becomes unreal… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
