“I shall dispel one empty story by another.”
Variant translation: I must dispel vanity with vanity.
Adversus Marcionem, IV.30.3
Original
Itaque et ego vanitatem vanitate depellam.
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Tertullian 41
Christian theologian 155–220Related quotes
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...
“When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.”
Quoted in an interview, "Sendak on Sendak," Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia (2007/2008)
“Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.”
On how her short story writing style has evolved in “An Interview | Edwidge Danticat” http://www.bkreview.org/fall-2018/an-interview-with-edwidge-danticat/ in The Brooklyn Review (Fall 2018)
Interviews
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White (1888).
Other works
“Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.”
Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician (1646), Sect. vi. Par. 18, 1. Compare: "My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads", Francis Bacon, Apothegms, No. 17.