All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
It's good to pass on stories.
I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
The telling of stories creates the real world.
No opposing quotes found.