Cameron Dokey Quotes

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.

My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

People are the story they tell themselves.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

Our lives teach us who we are.

We're all the stories we tell ourselves.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?