“All we have is the story we tell.”
Source: Beautiful Ruins
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“we become the stories we tell ourselves”
Michael Cunningham book A Home at the End of the World
Source: A Home at the End of the World
Tzi Ma (1962) Hong Kong American actor
As quoted in "‘Tigertail’s Tzi Ma Transcends Role As Hollywood’s Go-To Asian Father To Become Trailblazing Icon" in Deadline (8 April 2020) https://deadline.com/2020/04/tzi-ma-tigertail-asian-american-hollywood-diversity-inclusion-representation-1202900973/
“We have a place, all of us, in a long story. A story we continue, but whose end we will not see.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2001, First inaugural address (January 2001)
Context: We have a place, all of us, in a long story. A story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story, a story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born. Americans are called to enact this promise in our lives and in our laws. And though our nation has sometimes halted, and sometimes delayed, we must follow no other course.
“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?”
Scott Turow book Ordinary Heroes
Source: Ordinary Heroes
“The past is just a story we tell ourselves.”
Spike Jonze (1969) American director and actor
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
Joan Didion book The White Album
Source: "The White Album", in The White Album
