“Instead of focusing on isolated objects and events, we can expand our fixed perspective and allow the deeper process (often taking the… — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence.… — Lee Martin Copy Share Image
You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“Reading lives is the primary activity. Reading literature, although we engage in it more intentionally and more mindfully, is the secondary one.… — William L. Randall Copy Share Image
The part of the strangeness of coming back from the war is the way we talk about it. We try to have… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image