What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.
Interpretation
Memorable words can linger in our minds, impacting us long after they are spoken.
This quote suggests that certain words and stories leave a lasting impression on us, regardless of their perceived importance at the moment they are shared. The combination of the narrative and the way it is told, including the tone of voice, can create a profound effect that resonates throughout our lives, highlighting the power of communication and memory.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of storytelling, this quote can illustrate how powerful narratives shape our lives.
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.
Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.
Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.
A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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