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• Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilizers.

  A.S. Byatt

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• I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

  Alexander Payne

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• Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

  Barry Hannah

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• I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

  Daniel Handler

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• It’s very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there’s a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  Gary Hamel

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• In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don’t know what we’re seeing, we overreact.

  Jerry Saltz

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• There are certain things in ‘Twilight’… As much as I’m proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it’s a first-person narrative.

  Kristen Stewart

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  Tags in Character, Proud, Certain, Readers, Narrative, Person

• I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn’t work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.

  Cory Doctorow

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• American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation’s narrative.

  Ron Fournier

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• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there’s only narrative.

  E. L. Doctorow

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• People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

  E. O. Wilson

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• I used my instincts. It’s very easy to imagine how you’d feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

  Christopher Eccleston

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• If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn’t really count as narrative.

  Tim Vine

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• So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We’ll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

  James Cameron

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• Narrative identity takes part in the story’s movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

  Paul Ricoeur

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• The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

  Paul Ricoeur

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• I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

  Nicholas Mosley

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• An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

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