The Truth About Stories Quotes

“you have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are told.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“The truth about stories is that that's all we are.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“"Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous."”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“What if the creation story in Genesis had featured a flawed deity who was understanding and sympathetic rather than autocratic and rigid? Someone who, in the process of creation, found herself lost from time to time and in need of advice, someone who was willing to accept a little help with the more difficult decisions?
What if the animals had decided on their own names? What if Adam and Eve had simply been admonished for their foolishness?
I love you, God could have said, but I’m not happy with your behaviour. Let’s talk this over. Try to do better next time.
What kind of a world might we have created with that kind of story?”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“Would it have made a difference?
This is the question we always ask after we have given up.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“Perhaps we shouldn't be displeased with the 'environmental ethics' we have or the 'business ethics' or the 'political ethics' or any of the myriad of other codes of conduct suggested by our actions. After all, we've created them. We've created the stories that allow them to exist and flourish. They didn't come out of nowhere. They didn't arrive from another planet.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“What about human beings? said the animals. Do you
think we need human beings?
Why not? said the Twins. And as quick as they could the
right-handed Twin created women, and the left-handed
Twin created men.
They don't look too bright, said the animals. We hope
they won't be a problem.
Don't worry, said the Twins, you guys are going to get
along just fine.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“So it’s lucky for me that literary analysis is not about proof, only persuasion. In our cynical world, where suspicion is a necessity, insisting that something is true is not nearly as powerful as suggesting that something might be true.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“Once a story is told, it cannot be called back. Once told, it is loose in the world.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“What the camera allows you to do is to invent, to create. That's really what photographs are. Not records of moments, but rather imaginative acts.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“For once a story is told, it cannot be called back. Once told, it is loose in the world.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative