Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop.… - James Carroll
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop.…
- James Carroll
The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories … - James Carroll
The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories …
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blo… - James Carroll
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blo…
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly… - James Carroll
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly…
There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. - James Carroll
There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structu… - James Carroll
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structu…
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. - James Carroll
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner l… - James Carroll
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner l…
There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed. - James Carroll
There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.
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