Trust the tale, not the teller.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
Trust the material; trust the story that you're telling.
I'm very wary of trust, you see.
I'm just a story teller.
I see myself as a story teller.
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
Trust, but verify.
I'm not a fortune-teller.
You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.