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#narrative

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We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.


Lydia Davis


#short-story #writing #nature

Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics, human expression and the human experience are universal. It is the greatness of this experience that connects us together by infinite invisible threads strewn across the globe. This is my responsibility, passion and desire as an artist—my soul purpose.


Brian Bowers


#human-nature #humanity #longing #love #philosophy-of-life

[I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases where such a response is not shared by others, but until their individual responses lose their idiosyncratic nature by being adopted by a larger interpretive community, such responses will be regarded as being to a greater or lesser degree aberrant, and the offender will be regarded as lacking in good taste or good sense or both.


Patrick O'Neill


#narratology #nature

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being.


James W. Sire


#ideology #narrative #philosophy #presupposition #reality

The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate its claim - and by 'science' we simply mean the notion of a universal, autonomous reason. Science, then, is opposed to narrative, which attempts not to prove its claims but rather to proclaim them within a story.


James K.A. Smith


#modernity #narrative #postmodernism #reason #science

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.


James K.A. Smith


#narrative #proof #science #validation #science

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.


Umberto Eco


#escape #escapism #fiction #interpretation #narrative

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.


Lascelles Abercrombie


#continuous #epic #heroic #into #lays

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.


Darren Aronofsky


#god #godless #had #i #make

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.


Hans Urs von Balthasar


#first #gospels #narratives #passion #pieces






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