267 Quotes About Narrative

  • Author Emmanuel Apetsi
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    We' as Africans have never been poor, it has always been our mindset, and until we learn to write our own story, the narrative will always be the same.

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  • Author Albrecht Koschorke
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    Aber keine semantische Ordnung kann allein auf solchen Binarismen beruhen, weil neben den festen immer auch bewegliche, ihren Platz im Feld wechselnde Elemente notwendig sind, um überhaupt Ordnung in der Zeit herzustellen.

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  • Author Glenn Haybittle
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    In life, the narrative must go on. We're prisoners of our storylines. No one quite knows how or why they develop. And we have to cope with them as best we can, even when they push us over a new frontier.

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  • Author Julio Cortázar
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    Es terrible que un hombre sin grandeza alguna se tire de esa manera contra la pared. Nos denuncia a todos con el choque de sus huesos, nos hace trizas con la primera frase de su música.

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  • Author Anne Gisleson
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    Most narrative is part purpose, parr accident, and the messiness of life always pulses against the myth.

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  • Author Don DeLillo
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    Through history it's the novelist who has felt affinity for the violent man who lives in the dark. Where are your sympathies? With the colonial police, the occupier, the rich landlord, the corrupt government, the militaristic state? Or with the terrorist?

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