Arbitrary Quote by Elif Batuman

“Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.”

— Gao Xingjian

“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long without some…

— Haruki Murakami

As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story…

— Douglas Rushkoff

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

— Christina Baldwin

“Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new…

— Lauren Leto

I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they…

— Nick Clegg

I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one…

— Susan Sontag

After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make…

— Jeremy Silman

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and…

— Elizabeth Janeway

With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a…

— Eckhart Tolle

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes

I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become…

— Jim James