#narrative

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#events #narrative #national #national standards #past

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#freedom #i #i love #love #narrative

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#folk #i #like #narrative #part

By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is grounded in narrative or myth, Lyotard relativizes (secular) philosophy's claim to autonomy and so grants the legitimacy of a philosophy that grounds itself in Christian faith. Previously such a distinctly Christian philosophy would have been exiled from the 'pure' arena of philosophy because of its 'infection' with bias and prejudice. Lyotard's critique, however, demonstrates that no philosophy - indeed, no knowledge - is untainted by prejudice or faith commitments. In this way the playing field is leveled, and new opportunities to voice a Christian philosophy are created. Thus Lyotard's postmodern critique of metanarratives, rather than being a formidable foe of Christian faith and thought, can in fact be enlisted as an ally in the construction of a Christian philosophy. ↗

— James K.A. Smith

#christianity #knowledge #lyotard #metanarrative #narrative

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#contained #excursions #horseback #journey #june

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#alter #aspire #consciousness #deep #infiltrate

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

#into #narrative #one-liners #otherwise #overall

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#accepted #amongst #bring #describe #device

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#descriptive #each #fixed #individual #lyric

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#creativity #dependent #directions #entirely #fiction