Structure Quotes

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It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be… — Carol Shields
Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart. — U.G. Krishnamurti
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface:… — Roland Barthes
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation… — Jorge Luis Borges
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge… — Noam Chomsky
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought… — William Saroyan
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a… — Albert Einstein
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own… — Hakim Bey
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly… — Italo Calvino
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think… — Thomas Pynchon
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen. — Don DeLillo
Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous… — Muhammad Asad
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which… — Germaine Greer
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts… — Audre Lorde
Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the… — Sue Monk Kidd
There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I… — Carl Jung
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in… — Albert Einstein
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete… — Bill Bryson
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our… — Albert Einstein

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