The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.
Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.
Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
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