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“I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.”

People Sometimes Stories Body Language Cities Weight Structure Heavenly Remove Inertia Heavenly Bodies

Book:Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Source: Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.”

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.”

Ifs Love Whole Able Form Force Water Love Is Structure Currents Tiny Cracks Dams

Author:Paulo Coelho

“There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.”

Social Female Structure Males Social Structure

Author:Jo Brand

“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.”

Trying Soul Stories Able School Energy Poor Watches Dangerous Sweet Structure Temptation Narrative Tempted Unlikely Headings Narrative Structure

Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.”

World Structure Islam One Sided

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.”

Life Firsts Enough Mother Sleep Son Baby Quiet Band Structure Distance Genes Gestures Apology Rope Meadows Unspoken Amen Rubber Mother And Son Rubber Bands Sleeping Baby

Author:Aimee Bender

“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.”

Ifs Stories Education Learning Habit Humorous Foundation Structure Wings Add Educational

Author:Albert Einstein

“It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.”

Giving Sometimes Stories Able Sleep Knowing Our Lives Events Structure Insane Breathing Throwing Waking Arrangements Hindsight Throwing Away

Author:Carol Shields

“Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart.”

Whole Structure Blow

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading.”

Looks Reading Language Enjoy Simple Fine Structure Surface Narrative Bliss Look Up Skip Dip Temporality

Author:Roland Barthes

“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”

Book Voice Memories Reader Structure Series Dialogue Isolated Axes Intonation

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.”

Thinking Should Humans Given Challenges Authority Aspect Increase Structure Make Sense Justification Domination Scope Hierarchy Human Freedom Aspects Of Life

Book:Language and Politics

Source: Language and Politics

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.”

People Ifs World Should Two War Home Literature Lost Water Can Do Church Prayer Race Laughing Praying Music Is Structure Bread Desert Tribes You Can Do It Unimportant Unheard Armenia

Author:William Saroyan

“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”

Thinking Persons Feelings Religion Spirituality Religious Atheism Humility Structure Atheist Mysticism Magnificent Agnostic Atheistic Religious Person God Nature Thinking Person

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.”

Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

“My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.”

People World Way Writing Sometimes Stories Body Language Cities Quality Becoming Involved Weight Method Structure Sticks Heavenly Remove Inertia Heavenly Bodies Subtraction

Author:Italo Calvino

“Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.”

Littles Doe Nations Causes Military Arms Mass Structure Strikes Significant Command Traditional Borders Als Capability Troops Uniforms Civilians Casualties Civilian Casualties

Author:John O. Brennan

“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.”

Thinking Knows Writing Trouble Stage Ignorance Structure Scope Stages Of Life

Book:Slow Learner

Source: Slow Learner

“You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.”

Break Habit Structure Break Through

Book:Falling Man

Source: Falling Man

“Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.”

Religion Perfect Results Support Wise Words Balance Absolutes Structure Islam Architecture Islamic Lacking Quran Superfluous Complement Composure Islamic Wisdom Perfect Work

Author:Muhammad Asad

“I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.”

“For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.”

Men Feelings Poet Structure Profit Expected Defined Pleasant Survived Linear Pastime Dehumanization

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.”

Challenges Divine Female Structure Males Including Symbols Patriarchy Johnson Dominance

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.”

World Giving Mind I Can Real Form Certain Sound Simple Color Structure Clouds Complicated Stores Rational Certainty Twisted Shifting

Book:The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with a particular intensity that makes the most mundane objects in the landscape glow with an unusual radiance, so that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting, even beautiful? Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time.”

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

World Inspirational Trying Spiritual Imagine Atheism Appreciate Structure Atheist Senses Awe Inadequate

Author:Albert Einstein

“Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.”

Source: Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice

“The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.”

Imagination Fiction Known Records Structure Historical Historical Fiction Factual Scaffolding

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best”

Firsts Fall Social Pieces Our Lives Clothes Structure Liars Hypocrite Social Structure

Book:The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]

Source: The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]

“Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.”

Matter Facts Culture Individual Members Ego Behavior Structure Acceptable Consensus Neurotic Mind Blowing Overcoat

Author:Terence McKenna

“In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.”

Mean Real Happens Stuff Structure Real Life Stuff Happens

Book:Going Out

Source: Going Out

“But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of all work, that the whole social structure rests on them; that the possessions of the others are absolutely worthless to them without the workers' activity; that such protests, such strikes, are inherent in the system of property and will continually recur until the whole thing is abolished - and having shown that effectively, proceed to expropriate.”

Whole Shows Social Grows Can Do Class Activity Organization Structure Property Workers Possession Strikes Protest Inherent Working Class Worthless Possessing Social Structure

Author:Voltairine de Cleyre

“The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly structure." "They suddenly become less chaotic?" I said, wishing that would happen at HiTek. "No, that's the thing. They become more and more chaotic until they reach some sort of chaotic critical mass. When that happens, they spontaneously reorganize themselves at a higher equilibrium level. It's called self-organized criticality.”

Said Self Sometimes Happens Wish Levels Higher Mass Structure Chaos Critical Organized Gates Chaotic Amazing Things Equilibrium Orderly Critical Mass Chaos Theory

Book:Futures Imperfect

Source: Futures Imperfect

“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”

Wells Ends Responsibility Enemy Careers Position Circumstances One Day Conflict Structure Complexes Casts Thrown Patriotism Unusual Dissent Sense Of Responsibility Dissidents Branded

Author:Vaclav Havel

“These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything.”

Source: The Best American Short Stories 2003

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!”

Giving Success Winning Challenges Greater Structure Activism

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

Men Needs Years Littles Soul States Reason Mother Animal Childhood Century Pure Eternity Twenties Structure Maturity Instant Thirty Vegetables Womb Early Childhood

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.”

Class Structure Luxury

Author:H. Rap Brown

“Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.”

“Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.”

Firsts Children Important Reason Happens Language Social Tools Important Things Structure Raising Children Culmination Social Structure

Book:The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.”

Persons Different Real States Seems Evil Found Pure Gold Structure Tendencies Good And Evil Chemicals Unfortunate Convincing Impressive Dealings

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.”

Ifs Stories Steps Identity Thousand Reflection Mirrors Structure Endless Narrative Splits Gallery Dolls Fragmented Russian Dolls

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Facts Seems Turns Behinds Broken Wall Built Okay Structure Sticks Glasses Sheer Jerry Tents Fortresses Broken Glass Moats

Author:Martin Amis

“...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she could really hear, she understood structure and she could analyze exactly what it was about a piece of music that had to be rendered just so...she was a very emotional person, Annette. She brought that out in other people. After she died I don't think I ever really felt anything again.”

People Thinking Persons Soul Felt Voice Pieces Emotional Understood Died Structure Mere Biology Emotional Person

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it.”

Ifs Want Believe Enough Pain Common Produce Bed Logic Structure Don't Believe Common Sense Pairs Believe In God Pants Metaphysical

Author:Frank O'Hara

“a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.”

Ifs Goal Wife Failing Feminism Achieve Structure Revolutionary Shakes Our Society Cracks Splits Bedroom Status Quo Suburbs

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.”

Ifs Needs Made Would Be Jesus Creation Conversation Glory Concern Regard Structure Significant Hierarchy Crowning Glory

Author:William P. Young

“His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.”

Has Beens Lines Wall Structure Territory Ballparks

Book:Unwind

Source: Unwind

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