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«We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.»
«There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.»
«We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the intersection of several stories not yet completed.»
Author: Peter Brooks
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Action,
Living
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anticipating, completed, immerse, immersed, immersing, intersection, narrative, narratives, outcome, projects, reassess, reassessing, recount, recounted, recounting, several, situate, situated, situating
«A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.»
Author: John Updike
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apparent, exit, exited, exits, narrative, narratives, painted, The Author
«Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
narrative, narratives, recommendation, recommendations, sole, Truth The, unblushing
«Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Morality
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attempting, author, banished, banishes, banishing, motive, narrative, narratives, Order of, plot, plotting, prosecute, prosecuted, prosecuting, shot, The Author
«Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Literature
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belongings, delicacies, delicacy, family circle, narratives, obscene, robs
«More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.»
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