Character Quote by Paul Ricoeur

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

— Paul Ricoeur

“The simple answer is that I have changed my techniques in order to avoid the relentless sameness of my material, but I have probably…

— Ben Marcus

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort…

— H. W. Brands

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where things are…

— Colin Stetson

Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free…

— Tim Wise

The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most…

— Peg O'Connor

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

— Sam Harris

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— William Makepeace Thackeray