Robert Coover Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.”
-- Robert Coover

#Needs #Stories #Randomness
“People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment.”
-- Robert Coover

#Hands #Order #Law
“The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.”
-- Robert Coover

#Narrative #Imagine #Impulse
“My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.”
-- Robert Coover

#Style #Progression #Possession

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Robert Coover Quote We Need Myths To Get By We Need Story Otherwise

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