Being there Quote by Aleksandar Hemon Download Open image “As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.” — Aleksandar Hemon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being there Human beings Humans Language Long Stories
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature. — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
A friend gives hope when your life is low, a friend is place wen you have no place to go, a friend is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton was in rural America during the Iowa caucuses, but I think the nature of a campaign makes it more difficult once you… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love your mom no matter what you go through and no matter how much you argue because in the end,she'll always be there for… — My Favorite Qoutes Copy Share Image
I don't mind being there for you. I just mind being the one you run to just because everyone else is busy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being there for people but no one being there for you when you need them seems to be the story of my life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being there is what matters, not all the stress and issues that arise along the way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between being there for someone & kissing their ass looking stupid. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter the distance,i'll always be there for you and you will for me! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pushing me away so I can give her space. Dealing with a heart I didn't break. I'll be there for you, I will care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
