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.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
Things take the time they take. Don't worry.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
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