That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. But every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. If we were not something more than unique human beings, if each one of us could really be done away with once and for all by a single bullet, storytelling would lose all purpose. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him - for this is my story it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealized, or otherwise absent figure, but of a unique being of flesh and blood, Yet, what a real living human being is made of seems to be less understood today than at any time before, and men - each one of whom represents a unique and valuable experiment on the part of nature - are therefore shot wholesale nowadays. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.

Knowing, enjoying, and thus displaying the glory of God is a sharing in the glory of God. There is weight and significance in our existence. When we fulfill this reason for being, we have substance. РІР‚СљNovelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in every detail. Quotes tagged as 'human-beings' Showing 1-30 of 273. It is our created nature to make much of God.

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