Skip to content

Arrangements Quote by Ben Lerner

“My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.” quote by Ben Lerner — Download Open image

“My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Arrangements Concern Effects Facts Fiction Narrative Real World

More by Ben Lerner

I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to…

Image

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

Image

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

Image

“What you need to do is harness the self-love you are hypostasizing as offspring, as the next generation of you, and let it branch…

Image

“And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation,”

Image

“And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it…

Image

“Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a…

Image

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

Image

The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence?…

Image

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do…

Image

Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he…

Image

“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between…

Image

Explore all 73 Ben Lerner quotes

More Arrangements quotes

for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is…

Image

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

Image

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these…

Image

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but…

Felix Frankfurter

Image

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

Herbert Spencer

Image

The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in.…

Image

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

Image

Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy,…

Image

One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater…

Jacob K. Javits

Image

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

Image

Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be…

Rebecca MacKinnon

Image

But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and…

Image

Browse all 522 Arrangements quotes