“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it
are no longer the same interpreters.”
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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880Related quotes
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The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
Source: Why Stock Markets Crash - Critical Events in Complex Systems (2003), Chapter 4, Positive Feedbacks, p. 115
“We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.”
“The Same Story,” p. 63
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“And fair with sculptured stories it was wrought,
By lapse of time unto dim ruin brought.”
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land
Context: Noble the house was, nor seemed built for war,
But rather like the work of other days,
When men, in better peace than now they are,
Had leisure on the world around to gaze,
And noted well the past times' changing ways;
And fair with sculptured stories it was wrought,
By lapse of time unto dim ruin brought.
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (October 9, 1925)
Letters
Language and the Human Spirit (2003)
“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”