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narrative
I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous. Jim Crace
narrative objects
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. Neil MacGregor
narrative conveying objects
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
narrative tropes audience
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes. Paul Scheuring
narrative attention entering
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. Terry Tempest Williams
narrative metaphor myth
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. Joseph Campbell
narratives
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods. Matthew Tobin Anderson
narrative
I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it. Djuna Barnes
narrative plot resolution
Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative. David Shields
diaries filling saying watching
All these years, you've been filling in your diaries saying you've been watching 'Masterpiece Theatre,' ... Now they know you're watching 'Desperate Housewives.' Bill Carrick
diaries except nicole wrote
So everything in the diaries are true, except for what Nicole wrote that you said?
diaries diary million tiring
The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed. Tony Benn
diaries want causes
I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be. Miley Cyrus
diaries roles painful
[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful. Amber Heard
diaries journal seems
My diary seems to keep me whole. Anais Nin
diaries today sides
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine. Oscar Wilde
diaries should
Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
diaries disaster sentences
My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence. Liv Tyler
philosophers-and-philosophy philosophy rather seeks solve
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
philosopher beacons clear
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. Jacques Maritain
philosopher chemicals experiments
Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments Manly Hall
philosopher should take-your-time
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosopher absurd said
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.) Marcus Tullius Cicero
philosopher absurd said
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.
philosopher sponges
Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge? Terry Pratchett
philosopher great-philosophers scholar
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosopher middle stations
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.