"Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric." — N.D. Wilson
"Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric."
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N.D. Wilson
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43 Quotes by N.D. Wilson
N.D. Wilson has 43 quotes on this site.
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Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the…
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We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of…
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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His…
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The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule,…
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The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.
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Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
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Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when…
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Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep…
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To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your…
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Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are…
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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
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Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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