T Quotes
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“The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.”
“The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.”
“The narrative rigor of writing screenplays to a precise length, with story beats at all the right places has, I believe, made me a better novel writer. I feel very comfortable with the rhythms of the modern Hollywood movie, a sequence of storytelling expectations so many of us have internalized to the point that they can be deemed presumed knowledge in one's reader. It makes world building so much easier than it must have been for, say, Ray Bradbury, or even P K Dick. I feel quite comfortable straying from the narrative melody in my work, now, confident I can find my way home again, or can make my hat my home, story-wise, and that's something I tie in large measure to my screenwriting experience.”
Source: The Pleasure Model Repairman
“The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.”
“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 important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.”
“The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.”
Source: Crooning
“The narrative will look completely different when you start wanting to design your own life, become dedicated to bettering your future, and strive to achieve the fullest version of what it can be”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
“The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.”
Source: A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic
“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?”
“The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon.”
Source: 11/22/63
“The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this story everyone is hungry, even the birds. And at this point in the story so many things have gone wrong, so many bad decisions made, that it’s a wonder anyone would want to continue reading.”
“The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.”
Source: The Call of the Canyon
“The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated from the world, in which they keep falling short, and into language, where they fall even shorter. The narrators aggrandize their every plaint and lurid insight into verbal formations that betray their fatuity as speakers and even as hosts of their own bodies and souls.”
“The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s
wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.
Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.”
Source: The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation
“The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.”
Source: The Butlerian Jihad
“The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.”
Source: When the Chocolate Runs Out
“The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.”
“The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.”
“The narrow path of the righteous is an extremely difficult path to travel. The rough road to victory is a very challenging endeavor that pushes the limits of endurance. Enormous mountains of hardship, boisterous storms of adversity, and several other elements of confrontation are there in their various forms of operation to test our faith. So it’s very important for us to apply the word of our God to our lives, and believe it with unwavering faith. Then no form of adversity can keep us back from a successful advancement into a deeper progression where greater achievements are obtained.”
Source: Standing at the Top of the Hill
“The narrow path to wisdom is better than the wide road to ignorance.”
“The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).”
“The narrow zone of color created by the firelight was like the planet Earth―a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows.”
Source: Lud-in-the-Mist
“The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.”
“The narrower their lives, the wider their hips.”
Source: Sula
“The narrower their lives, the wider their hips. Those with husbands had folded themselves into starched coffins, their sides bursting with other people’s skinned dreams and bony regrets. Those without men were like sour-tipped needles featuring one constant empty eye. Those with men had had the sweetness sucked from their breath by ovens and steam kettles. Their children were like distant but exposed wounds whose aches were no less intimate because separate from their flesh. They had looked at the world and back at their children, back at the world and back again at their children, and Sula knew that one clear young eye was all that kept the knife away from the throat’s curve”
Source: Sula
“The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.”
“The nasheeds I do are for children, the youth, and for the older people.”
“The Nashes pushed Johnny as hard socially as they did academically. At first, it was Boy Scout camp and Sunday Bible classes; later on, lessons at the Floyd Ward dancing school and membership in the John Aldens Society, a youth organization devoted to improving the manners of its members.”
Source: A Beautiful Mind
“The Naskar Anthem
(Sonnet 2554-2555)
Heir to no throne,
no crown on my head,
tearing up borderly lies,
I burn as the lamp of aid.
I hold no flag,
yet I raise nations,
I stand as rebel guard,
humanizing inoculation.
Rocking the world with sacred wonder,
priming the souls with curing thunder,
every sonnet is call against slumber,
every line, a revolt against plunder.
From the alleys of grief
to the towers of pride,
I am wounded, I walk with
the wounded by my side.
Not born to erase faith,
but to rewrite it tolerant;
suffering is the doorway,
to the becoming of a saint.
A pair of helping hands is holier
than a million praying lips;
I got no need for scripture,
for I carry a heart that beats.
I have no law, but life -
I have no edict, but empathy.
I have no creed, but conscience -
I am the vow of mad inclusivity.
Roads ignited with the voice of oneness,
cannot be extinguished by clouds of hate.
When the final regime has fallen to pieces,
the drop of dew will still be incandescent.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“The Naskar Code (Sonnet)
Kainat** is my qaum*,
Universe is my aum.
Carrying **cosmos in my chest,
every *community is my home.
Sat* is my nam-e,
*Honesty, my identity.
I am the one who is,
reflection of all humanity.
Bodhi* and dharma** are key to life,
lifting us high above the animals.
*Awareness wakes us to divine vision,
**Duty is the seed of civilization.
Valley of life is without elite divide,
Science, philosophy, divine, all are one.
Scientist, Poet, Dervish, or Philosopher,
Adjectives though plenty, noun is but one.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“The Naskar DSM (NDSM Sonnet 2596)
If your history book, pol-sci book,
criminology book, doesn't register
the US government as the planet's
number one terrorist organization,
followed by the british empire,
you are studying fake history,
fake sociology, fake criminology.
If your psychology book
doesn't declare upfront,
that ultraindividualism is a sickness,
you are studying fancy make believe;
if your DSM doesn't mention that,
fundamentalism and nationalism
are the vilest plague of the mind,
it's the DSM of a lesser species.
Yet you know what the irony is -
egotism, dollarism, fascism,
fanaticism, fundamentalism,
these are all normal, all natural,
but they are normal in the jungle.
The question is not, is it natural!
The question is, should it be human nature!”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“The Naskar Paradox
(Sonnet that shouldn't exist, 2588-2592)
I am the rip in time,
that heals the fractures of space.
I am the variable of love,
that nullifies the constants of hate.
To be is not to be,
life begins beyond the fate.
I am here, I am early,
even if you arrive late.
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.
Sciences and theologies are my playthings,
I'm the pulse before reason and scriptures.
If apes pollute the pulse of life with dogma,
it is testament of an underdeveloped nature.
No telepathy, no clairvoyance,
human presence is the miracle.
No mind reading, no brainwashing,
eagerness unlocks the oracle.
The question is the answer,
the urgency is the calm.
Clocks measure coins, not time;
my bruises are my balm.
I am beyond your backward singularities,
larger than language models and libraries -
just a conduit made of stardust,
I'm empathy circuits written in verse.
Look up from your gypsy tea cups,
outside your make believe starcharts,
shake off the spell of hollow algorithms,
reality speaks through human tears.
You hunger for pride,
I hunger for life.
You hunger for tall walls,
I hunger for tall humans.
You hunger for future,
I hunger for the present.
Being is belonging,
attachment is advancement.
Love is not the absence of pain,
but the willingness to face it.
I'm every story ever suppressed,
every wound that never got stitched.
I am not old, I am not young,
I'm possibilities unsung.
I am paradox made flesh,
heartbeat born of cosmic hum.
I'm not in sonnets or equations, yet all in me,
silly mortal attempts to pen the infinity.
You're still searching for unified theories,
I'm the memory before divisions crept in.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“The Naskarean Sonnet
It ain't easy to get Naskar,
For Naskar is no being binary.
In a world full of dualities,
Naskar is an emblem of inclusivity.
Think not it to be a person,
For the person perished in line of duty.
What lives today is the idea,
The idea of struggle for undivided amity.
Every human who helps a human,
Is a manifestation Naskarean.
Wherever there is prejudice and inequality,
They appear as a living revolution.
When one Naskar dies a thousand will rise.
The dream of unity will never face demise.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“The nastier the e-mail, the more likely I am to respond because they`ll realize there`s a human being on the other side.”
“The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“The nastiest roadkill there is, is a skunk. Really.
Never breathe within forty yards of roadkill.”
Source: Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast
“The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.”
“The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.”
“The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.”
“The natal chart is like a seed and progressions are the unfolding in time of that into the plant it is to become. Transits, are like a daily weather report. In political astrology, these three factors have to be taken into account!”
“The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of “national economy” . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of “national economy” . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.”
“The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised, something that needs to be rescued or made - these matters preoccupy the third world writer. It is seductive for a Marxist understanding of literary practice and production in the sense that it says that material culture determines literary output.”
“The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.”
“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.”
“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.”
“The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.”
“The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.”
“The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.”