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Constructs Quote by Dan Chaon

“Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It…” quote by Dan Chaon — Download Open image

“Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.”

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I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.

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A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus…

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I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even…

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My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on…

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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

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Chuck Palahniuk

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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

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The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second…

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Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

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