“I shall dispel one empty story by another.”
Itaque et ego vanitatem vanitate depellam.
Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian
Variant translation: I must dispel vanity with vanity.
Adversus Marcionem, IV.30.3
Source: The Neverending Story
“I shall dispel one empty story by another.”
Itaque et ego vanitatem vanitate depellam.
Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian
Variant translation: I must dispel vanity with vanity.
Adversus Marcionem, IV.30.3
Rudyard Kipling book Soldiers Three
Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White (1888).
Other works
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“This moment will just be another story someday.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.”
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
Quoted in an interview, "Sendak on Sendak," Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia (2007/2008)
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) French writer
The Age for Love
Context: The story he told me was "per sfogarsi," as Bayle loved to say; his idea was that I would not discover the real hero. I shall always believe that it was his own story under another name, and I love to believe it because it was so exactly his way of looking at things...
“Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.”
John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic
“This Story may
Delightful be to tell another day.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis