Structure Quotes

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His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into… — Neal Shusterman
Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late… — Jim Harrison
The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure… — Rebecca Solnit
As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that… — E L Konigsburg
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed — Paulo Freire
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more… — Marcel Proust
It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures,… — Audre Lorde
There is at the back of every artistâ€™s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create… — Neil Gaiman
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of… — Paulo Coelho
I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin… — Sylvia Plath
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." â€” Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories) — Aimee Bender
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. — Philip K. Dick
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you… — Terry Pratchett
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of… — Mario Vargas Llosa
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a… — Joseph Campbell
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the… — Richard Matheson
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have… — George W. Bush

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