Retelling Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until…
— Timothy Radcliffe
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We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.
— Mira Bartok
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Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your…
— Robert Moss
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Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly…
— Ashley Kahn
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Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some…
— C.S. Lewis
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After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life,…
— Azar Nafisi
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not…
— Elie Wiesel
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But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He…
— Elie Wiesel
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It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.
— Lisa Unger
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All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were…
— Michael Chabon
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You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark
— Suzanne Collins
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These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go…
— Homer
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We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today,…
— Julie Taymor
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How does one say something new and not retell?
— Dejan Stojanovic
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I have a strong sense of...spirituality more than anything. I miss the ritual of the Mass...It feels comfortable when I'm there, with all its contradictions…
— Jimmy Smits
Who Wrote These Retelling Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Retelling Quotes as follows: