A Palpable God Quotes

“A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens--second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.”
― Reynolds Price, A Palpable God: Thirty Stories Translated from the Bible With an Essay on the Origins and Life of Narrative

“We crave nothing less that the perfect story; And while we chatter or listen all our lives to a din of craving – jokes, anecdotes, novels, dreams, films, plays, songs, half the words of our days – We are satisfied only by the one short tale we feel to be true; History is the will of a just God who knows us.”
― Reynolds Price, A Palpable God: Thirty Stories Translated from the Bible With an Essay on the Origins and Life of Narrative