8 Quotes by Robert Fulford

A story has shape, outlines, limits; an experience blurs at the edges and tends to merge imperceptibly with related experiences. In many cases, experiences are what happens to us, whereas stories happen to other people

The anthropologist Clifford Geertz says that humans are ‘symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking’ animals. In our species, he says, ‘the drive to make sense out of our experience, to give it form and order, is evidently as real and as pressing as the more familiar biological needs.’ To Geertz, a human being is an organism ‘which cannot live in a world it is unable to understand.

Stories, in order to become stories, must be simplified, stripped of extraneous detail and vagrant feeling

To discover we have no story is to acknowledge that our existence is meaningless, which we may find unbearable

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

To discover we have no story is to acknowledge that our existence is meaningless, which we may find unbearable.

Stories, in order to become stories, must be simplified, stripped of extraneous detail and vagrant feeling.

A story has shape, outlines, limits; an experience blurs at the edges and tends to merge imperceptibly with related experiences. In many cases, experiences are what happens to us, whereas stories happen to other people.