"The story does what no theorem can..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.
More by C S Lewis
“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”
“Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is”
“With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.”
More on Storytelling
“Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.”
“War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.”
“the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.”
More on Reality
“Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.”
“Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.”
“I do not see the world at all; I invent it.”